I started a new activity in my classroom this year. During the last five minutes of my day, I show some set of weird/interesting/funny pictures or video. I have called this the Show and Tell portion of the day. Basically I do it to have the students not feel the need to pack up/ line up at the door/ keep their attention, etc.
My goal also is to make the students leave on a positive note, so that maybe, psychologically, I can trick them into thinking coming to math class is a positive thing and remove the stigma that is math in this society 125 students at a time. :) But that is me dreaming big.
I have really liked the effects so far. Sometimes they have even been educational, but mostly not. And they never have anything to do with math.
Then I decided, I think everyone (and by everyone I mean the few that will come to read my blog) should benefit from the happiness this brings to me at the end of everyday.
So on this first post, I'm going to catch you up and then every couple of days I'll post the show and tell!
Day 1: I think students didn't quite understand what I was doing yet. I may have even scared a couple out from my class. Plus, I had no speaker hook ups so the video was kind of anti-climactic without any "jaws" music in the background. I had to wait a little bit for speakers before I could show a video again.
