Throughout my entire time in education, I have looked to the internet for resources that I could use in my classroom. From using teacher's pay teachers to find classroom resources to meet curricular outcomes, to using YouTube videos to help further students understanding of topic, internet resources have helped make my lessons fun and engaging for my students. When covid-19 first hit, I reached out to some of my friends who had children. I let them know that if they needed help with their child's homework, I would be willing to look it over and see how I could help. I was helping a young boy in grade 6 with his math homework. One routine that his teacher had in place was doing a math riddle at the beginning of each lesson. She sent students a link so that they could attempt it themselves. The videos are all available on YouTube and are produced by a company called Ted Ed. You just need to type ted ed math videos into the YouTube search bar and they should come up. Each video starts with a problem to solve. These vary from video to video. Once the problem is shared, on the screen it says to pause the video. On the pause screen, it gives you a brief overview of the problem. What I appreciate about having the pause screen available is that it gives the teacher liberty to choose how long they want to give the students time to solve the problem. This timing can be based on individual class needs and the complexity of the problem. After you have given the students an opportunity to solve the riddle, then you can press play and it will explain the solution to the problem. This is beneficial to students who were unable to solve the riddle in the allotted time and it explains the process behind figuring out the answers to help students understand their own thinking.
What is so great about it?
These videos are great for both auditory and visual learners
You can connect these videos to all four clusters of the Manitoba Math Curriculum
How can it be used?
It can be used at the beginning of a lesson to get your students thinking about math
It can be used by students who finish their lessons early
Great Features?
Visual Representation of math concepts
Fun and engaging
Not so great features?
These riddles are primarily targeted for middle years and high school students. It would be beneficial if this platform could make some riddles for younger students
Some riddles are harder than others. It would be beneficial to have a rating system from easier to hard so that teacher's can decide whether or not they will use the video in their classroom
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on the YouTube channel that I chose. If you would like to try one of the riddles yourself, I have linked a few of them below.
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