I created a flipped lesson plan that is quick and used as a reinforcement of content taught in the classroom. My goal was to create a video using Educreations on my iPad, upload it to my newly created YouTube playlist for math. This playlist, along with other video resources, will be available on my classroom website.

Here is my flipped lesson:

The lesson I created is an intro lesson for adding and subtracting decimal numbers for 5th graders. I am using Catlin Tucker’s three-step flipped lesson of Inquiry-Transfer of Information-Student-Centered Activity.

• Inquiry: This is an intro lesson on adding/subtracting decimal numbers. With decimal numbers I always like to connect to prior knowledge- decimal numbers goes well with money.I will ask a question like: “If I have two dollars, and I find fifty cents on the ground. How much money will I have?”Students will roll their eyes or hesitate because they think I’m tricking them but most will know the answer is $2.50 (2.00 + 0.50 = 2.50).

  I will then tell them that when 5th graders get that problem down on paper- a lot will get the answer of $0.52, or $0.07, or $7, or some other answer that shows a lack of place value knowledge. This immediately grabs them because it sounds ridiculous to them.

  I’ve hooked them here

• Transfer of Information:

Now is a good time to have them look at the video and and take the quick assessment.

• Student-Centered Activity

Students might now be wondering about the hook activity at the beginning.

I can have them solve this addition problem that represents having two dollars and finding fifty cents on the ground:

2 +.5

This will help to check for understanding. My class is broken up into seven teams they can work on seven similar problems in class, and then after a five minutes or so they can present an assigned problem to the class and how they solved it (maybe Iron Chef style?!)

Differentiation is built into the lesson with collaborative groups. Students who need extra support can be pulled to the back table if needed- but only after reteaching by classmates has occurred and they are still struggling.