Second class

Hello everyone!

In today's post, we will comment on the video: Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land (spanish version). We would use this video as a motivating element at the beginning of the course, as we explained in the previous post.

First, before viewing the video in class with the students, we must know what kind of contents appear in the video, how they relate to the contents that are established in the primary curriculum and what activities we can do with the students to deal with all of this that appears in the video.

Therefore, in this post we will comment on the video in general, all the aspects that appear in it and the contents of primary that we can work with. In later posts, we will comment part by part on the video, specifying the games and activities that we can use in the class.

👉🏻 In the first part of the video we can see how Donald enters in Mathmagic Land. It is here where numbers begin to appear, square roots, the PI number, which transforms into a bird when several flat figures join, and where the narrator is found. Initially, Donald believes that "mathematics are for nerds", this refers to when in the previous post we talked about the fact that most students "hate" mathematics. Therefore, this video and the narrator will show us that we are wrong, and that mathematics is something surprising.

As you can see, this video will help us change the perception of students with mathematics. On the other hand, perhaps in this part of the video we cannot use the contents that, in the LOMCE, refer to geometry, so we could do an initiation to it.

👉🏻 The second content appears in the video is music, Pythagoras and the pentagram. As we can see, we are not only giving geometry or mathematics, with this video we also work with transversal contents such as Music or History.

In this part of the video we will try to make students see how geometry is in music and vice versa. From my point of view, music is a good stimulant for students, since it has many benefits which we will discuss in the post related to this section.

👉🏻 The third content we will deal with is related to art and geometry, where we can introduce a large amount of content that appears in the law in this part as the flat figures, the area and perimeter of the same, geometric bodies...

Again, we can establish transversal contents with subjects such as History and Art. In addition, in this fragment of the video is showed the golden ratio and, also, is showed where we can find the pentagon in nature, contents that do not appear in the curriculum but are interesting for research and debate in class.

👉🏻 The fourth content that is included in the video is related to games, no matter if they are board games or any sport. This will be one of the sections that students like the most since it will be done through gamification. In this part of the video he explains how to play French billiards, which will be the perfect excuse to explain the angles.

👉🏻 In the last part of the video we can see how from a triangle and a circle creates different volumes and everyday objects of our day to day. Therefore, this section will be dedicated to that part of the curriculum.

As you can see, from a simple video, which we will use to motivate the students at the beginning of the course, we have obtained enough information to work with the students during the course. The activities, games or experiments that we will expose in the next posts could be used as "mini-projects" within the subject of Mathematics, more specifically in the area of ​​Geometry, making the classes a little more dynamic and entertaining for the students.

I hope you stay and help us in this exciting trip through Mathmagic Land!

Marta