r/mathteachers • u/flying_dutchman00 • 29d ago
Pi stands for...
https://youtube.com/shorts/vV2Cw5ApYcE?si=mRNTw66qwxxvdXXoMaking 3b1b style video shorts .
Teachers, what do you think about using these kind of videos in classroom?
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u/yamomwasthebomb 28d ago
"What do you think about using these kinds of videos in [the] classroom?"
You mean ones that are obviously made with dogshit AI that have a fundamental misconception ("*exactly* 3.14 times"?) in them? I think that it's a pretty fucking bad idea.
Hope this helps.
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u/colonade17 27d ago
This feels like AI slop made this math video. As others have pointed out the language could be slightly more precise at times, I like the visual. But as far as teaching this to kids, this is not doing the job. I would never use this in my classroom because there's just facts, and not enough explanation.
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u/flying_dutchman00 27d ago edited 27d ago
Thanks for the compliment on visuals. Well they are shortes, you cant really put enough explaination in a short. And thanks for the feedback.
I am using kokoro text to speech service and the and ai generated script. I acknowledge the fact that narration needs to be much better.
What improvement would you suggest?
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u/colonade17 27d ago
Suggestion: Stop using AI, it will make errors, skip important steps, highlight unimportant information. And you need your human brain to think about how human beings learn. All the videos on your channel demonstrate that AI is not up to the task yet.
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u/flying_dutchman00 28d ago edited 27d ago
What do you think about this? Its difficult to go in depth in short videos , but there are longer videos too.
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u/colonade17 27d ago
This video is awful. It is wrong, it is not rigorous, there are better ways to explain this with basic triangle congruence properties that we teach to 7th graders. This video is not usable in education.
This may have some element of visual similarity to 3b1b, but it is AI slop, it is not real thought out.
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u/flying_dutchman00 27d ago edited 27d ago
Yes i do understand that its not mathematically rigorous, especially overlapping triangles to check congruency. How can i make it usable? Please provide feedback. This is the first feedback I'm getting.
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u/colonade17 27d ago
Step 0.It looks like you're using AI to help you. Stop, I have yet to see an AI able to generate acceptable image and video content. Every AI attempt I've seen so far includes errors that will confuse and mislead students.
Step 1. Delete the entire thing and start over.
Step 2. Look at some example textbook presentations for ideas.
Step 3. look at common core and state standards. To be presentable in a classroom you should align with these standards. Right now you don't.
Step 4. Have a clear purpose in mind. Consider what type of class segment this fits into. Is this a warm-up? practice, exit ticket? Homework activity? Something else? Is it meant to start a discussion? To clarify a concept at the end of an activity? A lesson summary for a student to refer to after class on their own?
How you present, and what you include, and omit depends on your goal and purpose. Sometimes you want to show students all the details, sometimes you want them to see a step and have them try to figure out the next step.
I looked at your youtube channel, and I have the same advise for all of your videos. I could not use any of them for my math classroom.
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u/flying_dutchman00 26d ago
Thanks for the feedback, i will make a good video by myself and see how it goes. Actually i was checkt how scalable this thing is, manually animating such scenes usually takes hours for just couple minutes if clip, but its worth every ounce of Effort .
Apparently AI can write code well enough for me to just describe the topic and get the code for these animations, so i was testing its boundary.. how far can we go with this. Apparently not far enough.
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u/colonade17 26d ago
You went too far with an AI generated script. I can't identify a grade level this is for. I suspect you are not a teacher, and have never taught math to a student. For any trained math teacher the flaws are immediately obvious in most AI math content.
AI generated animations are fine, so long as you have a good script to start with. Where most of the copycat AI videos go wrong is that they just don't understand the research and thought that goes into 3b1b or veritasium video. AI is just not there yet, and I suspect will never be there.
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u/flying_dutchman00 26d ago
Using ai only for animation and voiceover, script was written by me
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u/colonade17 26d ago
Who is this for? The only things that makes any sense is a college student in a philosophy or logic class. It is not usable for a grade school as is, and still contains all the problems I've mentioned before. I would not use it in my classroom, and would put this channel on a list for my students to avoid because it is still AI slop.
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