Flip Basics 💻📱🖥

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Here are the basics: When you set up your account, you’ll first create a Topic for your learning community. Topics are discussion prompts that your students respond to with short videos. Students then Record a Response and post their video or view and Add a Comment to one another’s Responses.

Groups are a great way for educators to organize multiple Topics and share them with a community of learners. Invite your students to respond to an individual Topic or to access your Group of Topics by sharing the Join Code or Link.

Flip is available on the web and via our iOS and Android apps.

Flip in PreK-2 Mathematics 📐🎉

During this period, students are developing number concepts that serve as the foundation of all mathematical concepts. Flip allows students to explore and find math around them, making learning relevant and meaningful. In addition, children communicating their mathematical thinking using Flip promotes metacognition, thinking about thinking. Flip helps learners to make their thinking visible as written communication is being introduced, helps to increase mathematical vocabulary, and encourages learners to communicate their ideas to others as they also learn from others.  Here are a few ways Flip can foster a love of mathematics, develop number sense, and problem solving skills for learners at this age: 

⭐️ Counting including one-to-one correspondence and number recognition

⭐️ Cardinality, expressing numbers in a set

⭐️ Identify, describe, sort, and create 2-D and 3-D shapes and objects

⭐️ Measure to determine more, less or the same

⭐️ Develops understanding place value

⭐️ Use basic operations (addition and subtraction) to solve problems

⭐️ Build foundations for multiplication and division

⭐️ Represent information/ data in various way (i.e. using picture graphs, bar graphs)

Using Flip for students to share their thoughts about problems and capturing their perseverance through the problem solving process is a great way to assess and provide feedback on learning. As students reason, they make their thinking visible by showcasing their representation in words, pictures, models, or actions using Flip. Since all videos are housed on the same grid, the students are able to not only share and justify their arguments but using the Reply feature, critique the reasoning of others.

Once you’re ready to create your first Topic to explore mathematical thinking, you can dive right in from your Educator Admin or head to the Discovery Library for inspiration. Here is a sampling of PreK-2 Mathematics Topics currently available in the Disco Library, all created by fellow educators and ready to be used with your learners! 

🚀 Discovery Library: PreK - Kindergarten

Gummy Bear Counting  by Jornea Erwin: A Topic to to help students model mathematical thinking using concrete object.

Number Talks Subitizing  by Jamie Spikerman: A Topic for students to activate, develop, and communicate their concept of a number. 

Arrays by Yaritza Hernandez: A Topic to help young learners explore math in an authentic and relevant way- exploring and recognizing math in their world. 

🚀 Discovery Library: 1st Grade

Which Does Not Belong? by Valtika Rhodes:  A topic that encourages students to apply mathematical concepts to communicate their thoughts about which does not belong?  Vary the numbers, symbols, or equations to meet your learning needs!

Mystery Shapes by Kelsey Parrasch:  A topic to assess students’ knowledge as they define attributes and compose two dimensional shapes.

Bar Graphs and Pictographs by Thomas Sweeney:  A topic for students to communicate ways to organize, represent, and interpret data.

🚀 Discovery Library: 2nd Grade

Measurement Perimeter by Priscilla Heredia: A performance-based topic encouraging students to measure length in standard units, then find the perimeter.

10 More and Less by Jolianne Boucher:  A topic that fosters mental math adding and subtracting 10 from any given number while also building an understanding of place value.

Hooray for Arrays by Kristin Merrill:  A topic that allows students to explore arrays in the real world.  Students at the 2nd grade level can use repeated addition to find the total number of objects arranged in the rectangular arrays, then sharing a multiplication equation that also represents the array.

Consider this: ISTE Standards for Students 💡

Empowered Learner 1 - Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences. 1C: Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

Knowledge Constructor 3 - Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others. 3D: Students build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and solutions.

Want even more!? 🤓

💥 Join Education Innovation Leads Jornea Erwin, Jess Boyce, and Ann Kozma for a LIVE Professional Development session. 

💥 Join the #FlipgridForAll and #FlipForAll educator community on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to learn from colleagues and peers around the world!

💥 Become a Level One Flip Certified Educator.

There is no limit to the ways you can use Flip with learners in mathematics. Dive in and help your students define and share their voice and respect the diverse voices of their peers. We are here to support you!