Digital Video in Mathematics Education

Math-related videos housed in the Screening Room:

Bicycle Rock – Part 1
Bicycle Rock – Part 2
Inverted Bicycle
Wheel With Numbers
Wheel With Graph
Math Problem

Here are links to all online digital videos and all websites referenced in the order in which they appear in the chapter “Digital Video in Mathematics Education” by Margaret L. Niess and Janet M. Walker.

Read their chapter in Teaching with Digital Video: Watch, Analyze, Create (ISTE).

Fractal Zoom Mandelbrot Corner  (YouTube)

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

Math Bits

PBS Mathline

Math Education Free Videos

Abbott and Costello (YouTube)

Ma and Pa Kettle (YouTube)

Abbott & Costello: "Two Tens for a Five" & "Who's on First" (YouTube)

Donald in Mathmagicland

Bicycle Rock – Part 1 (Screening Room)

Bicycle Rock – Part 2 (Screening Room)

Inverted Bicycle (Screening Room)

Wheel With Numbers (Screening Room)

Wheel With Graph (Screening Room)

Cycloid Video

Cycloid animation

Ohio State Patrol link for the rate of change activity
 
What Do You Know About Math? (YouTube)

Crazy Math Teacher: The Dance of the Parallel Lines (YouTube)

Finite Simple Group (of Order Two) (YouTube)

Math With Madeline (YouTube)

Math Problem (Screening Room)

The IUP Marching Band (YouTube)



Quick Summary

Digital videos can engage your students in actively constructing their mathematical knowledge. Students can watch videos that present challenging mathematical questions and expand their visualization skills. They can mathematically analyze events in video clips. They can create videos that communicate what they know and are able to do.

Digital video capabilities can engage students in higher order thinking in a classroom where traditionally they have been expected to follow a set of rules for solving a problem. The instructional key is to engage students in thinking about ideas presented with video images and make connections with mathematical ideas.