Two-digit multiplication: Our first FLIPPED video!

Instructional videos are not a new part of our class website, but FLIPPED videos are!  The videos are the same, but the purposes are a bit different.  In the past, I’ve posted videos to support kids with their homework.  These videos review skills from the day’s lesson and cover content that kids have already learned.  Flipped instruction introduces new concepts as homework, usually through an online video.  This is intended to preteach a skill that is new to students so that they have a bit of background to support them during the main lesson (usually to be taught the following day).  I certainly don’t expect kids to have mastered a skill just from watching a short video, and it’s common that the next day’s lesson will extend the skill beyond what was covered in the flipped video.  Sometimes kids will need to complete a problem to show they watched the video, but not always.  (Tonight, for example, there is nothing to hand in.)  It’s important to remember that that flipped videos are actual homework assignments, and that students are asked to watch them as their nightly assignment.  (It’s not optional.)

Tonight’s homework is to watch a video about two-digit multiplication.  Students shared that this was a bit challenging while I was out earlier this week, so I want to take another day to go to through it.  Tonight’s video introduces two-digit multiplication with regrouping (which is the traditional method that most of us learned as kids).  Here’s the link:

http://viewpure.com/RVYwunbpMHA

Posted in Homework Assignments|By Jon Moss