Girls Just Wanna Learn MATH! Sara Slagle (Front Range Community College, formerly FCHS) sara.slagle@frontrange.edu Eric Modlin (Front Range Community College, FCHS) eric.modlin@frontrange.edu

Introductions… Sara Slagle– COLORADO Fort Collins High School teacher (8 years) Front Range Community College (3 years, now full time faculty) Eric Modlin-- COLORADO Fort Collins High math tutor (3 years) Front Range Community College (2 years)

The beginning… January 2015 our first video went LIVE! All About That BASE (logarithms) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER5mU8Zl pG0 Over 16,000 views Played throughout school district, school board meetings On Ellentube

Big questions… How can we make learning math more FUN? How can we use songs/parodies/relevancy in the classroom to facilitate learning? How can we gain more attention locally? Nationally? How can we support GIRLS in stem?

Other videos we’ve made… Blank Space (Complete the Square) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDz1wnSLw5M Cellphone Ding (Put Away That Cellphone) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C3zsowUe3I Girls Just Wanna Learn MATH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw-ratvPR2Y Lessons That Count video series (Stay tuned for more info on this project)

Benefits We’ve Seen So Far… District support Can be used in multiple courses “Math Girls” label in our building Recognized by students Requested more songs, helped create ideas for future videos Mathematics Honor Society connections

Lessons That Count… Quadratic Modeling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jedJqWJN3s Unit Conversions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guT8MChiy8s Indirect Measurement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2zA7JKgZ5g Linear Programming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teCGEYdREto

From here… Student involvement Gain more attention More ideas for new songs and topics Twitter: @MsSaraSlagle Youtube: MsSaraSlagle Email: sara.slagle@frontrange.edu