For every teacher whose voice gets tired before the end of the day, or wonders if the kids start to hear just a drone, or the sort of noise that the teacher in the Peanuts cartoon made, there are Youtube instructional videos.  At the very least, the kids can hear someone else's voice and way of explaining things, and some are downright fun.  Well, maybe 'fun' is a stretch; as a music lover I would never listen to them unless playing them for a class that I thought would like it, but students would probably find them enjoyable.

These ones are for explaining how and why to borrow when subtracting two-digit numbers

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Then, there is a song for the kids to sing as a group:

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It breaks up monotony of lecturing, and makes math feel like something that they will use outside of the classroom!

Nevermind silly me thought I could embed, let's try this again in a later post.