about mathematics

In this post I'm going to share two videos about mathematics. Eduardo Saenz is a mathematician, he talks in the two videos, one is about the importance of mathematics in real life and the other one is an story about teacher and problems. 

In this first video throughout a story of his own, he shows us two learnings for life:

- A problem is a opportunity to learn something 

- There are many ways to get the solution of a problem 

He also says that a good teacher is for life, and a teacher has to be in continuous training. 

In the second video he talks about the importance of mathematics. He shows examples and demonstrations to support what he says. 

With these two videos, I want to transmit the idea that we have to be aware of the importance of mathematics in our day to day. Also, to be conscious of our responsibility as future teachers to make our future students know that importance. 

APPS FOR MEASUREMENT

I would like to show you four interesting apps destined to improve the term of measurement in class. As teachers we have to use new technologies in class, because nowadays we are surrounded by them!!

• Geoboard (iOS y web)

This app is oriented to geometry. It is like a virtual geoplane: with a set of ropes which you can form different polygons. With it you can calculate areas and lengths.

• Cambio de Unidades con la Srta. Athenea (Android)

In this app what is supposed to do is to practice the measurement units through ordening measures (comparisons), operating (pass to the indicated unit), etc.

• Rey de las matemáticas (iOS y Android)

Student in this app, has to imagine that s/he is a farmer, who has to solve different mathematics problems and challenges in order to be a king. It contains a lot of levels and the theme is very interesting so the app could be addictive and very educative.

• Télemetro (Android)

This Télemetro measures the distance and height of a target object by trigonometry.

PROBABILITY

Hi everyone! 

This post will address one of the main topics of the measure: probability. This concept is not taught in depth in primary education, but it is important to keep it in mind. 

Firstly, I show you a video that explain in a simple way the meaning of probability. It has some explanations with a lot of examples. 

On the other hand, I would like to share with you another video. It is a game related with that concept. It is a simple game so we can apply it with our students in class. You only need dies and little balls! 

CUENTAMATES, an useful game

Today I show you an interesting and fun game, CUENTAMATES, to apply in the classroom with the little ones. I found it on the website of @profesorademates. It is a game related with mathematics but which includes other subjects in an indirect way. 

To play, you only need some boards (click here to print it), a die and a tile for each student. 

With this game, we develop a lot of contents: attention, memory, even and odd numbers, oral expression, imagination, laterality: right and left, geometrical figures, concentration, vobulary in other languages, animals' classification, healthy food...

The rules of the game are in the same page of the boards. 

This is an example of a board:

If you want more information about the game, you can click here