Math Antics - Points, Lines, & Planes

Math Antics

Not to take away from Points, Lines and Planes but the Math Antics site is amazing! My Professor introduced Math Antics to us today in this video introducing Point, Lines, and Planes, which by the way is awesome!** I did find some great points, lines, and planes worksheets on google if your interested in doing some extra practice.

The best part of my day was when I went to my service learning and guess what the teacher was showing in class?  You guessed it a Math Antics video.  I was honestly very excited because I thoroughly enjoyed the video in class today so much, I need to show you both videos here.  I just love this site mathantics.com 

Talk about a great friendly site and wonderful videos to help you introduce different subjects that are so easy to follow along and gain information from.

The kids in Mr. Martin's 2nd grade class sat patiently watching the video, it grabbed their attention and kept them following along because of the way he included you by asking questions of the audience.  This was a very productive video.  Mr.Martin would stop the video and let the students work the problems out before the video did, he then would turn the video back on and the students could see the correct answers and follow along as the problems were worked out step by step.  It also gives the teacher time to look around and see who is needing extra support or struggling with getting the correct answer because the were not borrowing or regrouping properly.

See ya on the plane later,

Terri

Learned a New Word Today "Regrouping"

Today was my first day of service learning and I loved it!  I learned a new term and got to observe and help out a class of 2nd graders for a few hours today, total enjoyable experience.  I was in Mr. Martins second grade class today and when I arrived they were doing reading but shortly moved into math.  We handed out markers and whiteboards and Mr. Martin proceeded to teach them how to subtract 2 digit numbers, then 3 digit numbers.  The new vocabulary word or new term I learned was "Regrouping".  I've always called it "Borrowing" because that is what I was taught, I find it interesting to hear a new word being used and see it being understood by the students.
The teacher also used prompts like I do, we do and you do for the students so they knew they're expectations in class and could follow along with the tasks at hand.  I found this a useful tool for letting the students know what was going on and they seemed to need a little reigning in from time to time and I found that these simple words gave enough direction so the students knew exactly what to do.

**Note: I linked the word "Borrowing" above to the multi-subtraction video that we watched in service learning but I had already included it on another post because it was another day and the teacher showed that video that day. I just love the way Math Antics teaches you and explains everything in detail and simply.
Don't subtract me just yet,
Terri