Flipping the Classroom: Give it a Try! NCTM Regional 2013 Louisville Kevin CarlinJennifer Nickell Lakota East NC State University Liberty Township, OHRaleigh, NC

Warm-Up Problem Answer the following problem to the best of your ability. Your work needs to be complete. Meaning show all your mathematical work, write in complete sentences, and make sure everything is neat and explained clearly. Hint! (Draw the diagonal of the square) Answer should be on this paper. Determine the area of the square:

“It doesn’t matter how smart a person is – if they are unable to work together with other people, they are worthless to a company.” Ed Zuchowsky

What is flipping a classroom? Also called “reverse instruction” At home students watch videos about a lesson In class students work on homework or high- level tasks

How to decide which lessons to flip? We decided to pick a chapter that our students struggled with the rigor of the problems The problems require a lot of previous knowledge, they are multiple steps and the students would benefit from working in groups. We felt the notes from this chapter (Area) were straight-forward enough that the students would not be at a disadvantage by watching the videos

How to make the videos: We used iMovie, SMART software and SMART slate. Windows Movie Maker will work as well We recorded ourselves working through the problem and then our audio separately. Uploaded our videos to YouTube Find our videos by searching: MathmanLakota

More information about our videos Students were provided all of the videos, notes, and assignments at the beginning of the unit Students could watch the videos on their on schedule as long as they were completed before they needed them in class Videos had sounds, “magic words” and images to quiz the students on to verify that they watched the videos.

What are the rules for the classroom? Work needs to be done in class together Absent students do have to work on their own to catch up Check-ins every day to let them know where they should be. Since there is no homework, the expectation is they work from bell to bell

Facilitating the groups Groups are set up heterogeneously - with a high, 2 medium, and 1 lower achieving student. Try to keep groups to 4, Would rather keep groups to 3 rather than 5 Keep in mind who are the best friends (they don’t sit together) and who does not talk to anyone Important that students work together and they speak to one another. The first few sections are easy so my main focus is getting them to work together.

Example Video Jen insert video

Other ways to make videos: Document camera and screen casting software

Example Video

Other ways to make videos: Document camera and screen casting software Video camera and a white board o

Example Video Jen is going to insert video

What do students think? Students like it for the first week then the novelty begins to wear out The constant work in class is more than they are used to doing and the problems become difficult They are usually ready to get back to the regular class by the end of the chapter. Survey at the end and reviews are usually mixed. The expectation is that they are ready to learn, participate, and work with their group

Cons to flipping the classroom

Pros to flipping the classroom

Answer to Warm-Up Use Pythagorean theorem to get Adding together to get the diagonal to be So