Flip Grid in Math

 Flipgrid is one of those great programs that allows people to record themselves in video form and is quite useful in the classroom.  This is one of those programs that is much easier to use in Language Arts or History but it can be used in Mathematics, especially since  the Common Core has students "explain themselves".

If you have never used it before, flip grid is easy to sign up for and allows you to use class codes rather than having each student join via their own identity.  In addition, they have an educators startup guide so if you've never used it before, you have a place to start.

The guide has been updated for fall 2019 with everything from the lingo and signing up for an account to using it in class and setting up the assignments.  I like this guide as it is very step by step for the complete beginner.  One of the other items they offer are a variety of grade level integration documents to help teachers use flip grid in their classes appropriately.

The high school integration document has some wonderful suggestions for using Flip Grid in the high school classroom although they have documents for all grades all the way down to kindergarten.  Some of the ideas they give for ways to use Flip grid in the classroom include explaining geometric formulas and how to use them to solve problems, how how to extend the laws of exponents to rational exponents, and so many other ways. But there are other ways to use this program in the math classroom which allow peer tutoring.

Another site suggests assigning each student a problem they explain how to solve using flip grid. The type of video is up to them.  They could make an animated video, talking heads, music video, or even screen capture.  The nice thing about having students show their work in this medium is that they practice communicating their thoughts.  In addition, rather than helping students when they have questions, let them post a video asking for help on a problem, and other students create a video to help the student out.

Students often have difficulty figuring out where mistakes occur.  One way to help students with this is to post a video with a problem and have students post videos with their answers.  The teacher then provides feedback while moderating the answers. The teacher create videos where students post their answers to your "What do you wonder?  What do you notice?  What do you think?".  Or have students respond to your "Which one does not belong?" video.

If you want students more involved with math, let them create problems to share via Flipgrid and let the other students post their answers or place a picture in the video while asking students to estimate something and explain how they came up with their estimations.

In regarding to grading the flip grid products, it is easy to apply rubrics because you can let students know what you are looking for and the criteria you are using for grading such as the thoroughness of the answer, the explanation, mechanics and grammar, etc.

Check it out and have a great time checking it out.  Let me know what you think, I'd love to hear.  Have a great evening.