The name of the vidcast that Annalyse and I prepared is "Order of Operations". The vidcast series addresses fourth grade Standard 2: Objective 2 which states to use algebraic expressions, symbols, and properties of the operations to represent, simplify, and solve mathematical equations and inequalities. An example they gave was to use the order of operations to evaluate, simplify, and compare mathematical expressions involving the four operations, parentheses, and the symbols. We were able to do this in our vidcast.
The rationale behind this vidcast is that it will help students learn the order of operations in a fun, interesting way. We are teaching a concept that is hard to remember but with our two catchy phrases will make it more simple. The reason I chose to do this topic is because it's one that I can use with the upper grades. I really think the students will love knowing that I made it and I think it will make it easier for them to remember. I remember learning this concept as a child and it took me a little bit to remember the order of operations. It is a tricky concept to remember but once you do you never forget it. I don't see any potential drawbacks to using this series in my classroom. This is a concept that we will always teach in our classrooms so this vidcast will never go out of date.
Some future plans that I have for this series is to do more vidcasts on math that would tie right in with order of operations. I would love to do a vidcast on fractions and decimals. I think it would be great to be able to do a vidcast on fractions and show them examples of things in the real world that they can compare fractions to. One thing that you could do with fractions is show a pizza and you cutting it in to halfs, thirds, etc. I think this is such a fun idea to incorporate these vidcasts in to our classrooms. I definitely will be using these in the future.
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