Empowering Girls Through Fun Math Learning Videos
Engage students in math education with entertaining videos featuring Sara Slagle and Eric Modlin from Front Range Community College. They strive to make learning math enjoyable through song parodies and relevant content. Their initiative aims to support girls in STEM fields and has gained recognition and support locally and nationally. Watch their videos for innovative lessons and stay tuned for more exciting projects.
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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 weve 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 Weve 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
