Classroom Activity
Bingo Review
Reviewing the comments that were made, the main objective for my students will be to help the class learn and practice for a test, while having a little fun.
This classroom activity is to help students further understand the previous material covered in class. In order to participate, the students need to have been turning in their homework and in class assignments and just have passed the previous math courses.
I have decided that for this game, the students only need to be responsible for bringing in thier own game card. I will give the class a list of answers via e-mail and show them how to create their own card in class. If they do forget their card, I will have extras to pass out. The pieces of technology that I will be integrating are e-mail, powerpoint, microsoft word, and their calculators.
The grade level is 10th grade math which will be based on Algebra. The game will take about an hour to play. I will take the first 20 minutes of class time to explain how the game will work and then the remaining time we will play the game. The activity will be in the classroom.
The students will all have one card and about 20 pieces of ripped paper to cover their spots. Each powerpoint slide will consist of one math problem and each student will do the math on a separate sheet of paper. If they have the answer on thier BINGO card, the student will write the number of the problem on one of the pieces of ripped paper and cover the spot. After a student has achieved "BINGO" then the student will show me his or her work. If the student does not have "BINGO" the game will continue. At the end of the time, each student will turn in their papers to recieve a completion grade.
The next class period, the students will take the test. The test will show me how well the students learned the material. After the test, the students will write up a short Word document telling me what helped them the most to learn the material, and if they had any problems understanding. This will help me teach in the future.
I am still thinking about how I will deal with the students that are left behind or more knowledgeable. I am also still researching what kind of math problems I should include in my game.
Reviewing the comments that were made, the main objective for my students will be to help the class learn and practice for a test, while having a little fun.
This classroom activity is to help students further understand the previous material covered in class. In order to participate, the students need to have been turning in their homework and in class assignments and just have passed the previous math courses.
I have decided that for this game, the students only need to be responsible for bringing in thier own game card. I will give the class a list of answers via e-mail and show them how to create their own card in class. If they do forget their card, I will have extras to pass out. The pieces of technology that I will be integrating are e-mail, powerpoint, microsoft word, and their calculators.
The grade level is 10th grade math which will be based on Algebra. The game will take about an hour to play. I will take the first 20 minutes of class time to explain how the game will work and then the remaining time we will play the game. The activity will be in the classroom.
The students will all have one card and about 20 pieces of ripped paper to cover their spots. Each powerpoint slide will consist of one math problem and each student will do the math on a separate sheet of paper. If they have the answer on thier BINGO card, the student will write the number of the problem on one of the pieces of ripped paper and cover the spot. After a student has achieved "BINGO" then the student will show me his or her work. If the student does not have "BINGO" the game will continue. At the end of the time, each student will turn in their papers to recieve a completion grade.
The next class period, the students will take the test. The test will show me how well the students learned the material. After the test, the students will write up a short Word document telling me what helped them the most to learn the material, and if they had any problems understanding. This will help me teach in the future.
I am still thinking about how I will deal with the students that are left behind or more knowledgeable. I am also still researching what kind of math problems I should include in my game.
posted by Julie V at 3/14/2006 01:08:00 PM
3 Comments:
Julie:
Your activity looks great, and it seems you have been really thoughtful in putting it together. You are even considering your higher and lower level learners. The only thing I could think of doing for these students is to vary the difficulty of your math questions. Make some problems more challenging than others and make some easy enough for every student to answer. I would recommend thinking of specific questions to include in the directions for the short paper that your students will write. Everything looks good. Have you though of a title for your activity? Next time you post your activity, try to fill out Dr. Baylen’s criteria in a numbered and bulleted list so that it is easy to see your objectives, directions, etc. Good luck!
Catherine,
Thank you for your compliments and suggestions. I like the idea about mixing up the level of difficulty in the game. That would be a good way for the lower level kids to practice and the more advanced. Your mentioning of specific questions is a good idea too. That way the kids are not going to just "beat around the bush". I do not want it to be a long assignment, just because it is not a writing course. I'm still thinking about the title. It'll probably be something simple. Next time I will number my list. I tried to break it into paragraphs but I can list things. Thanks again.
Annalb,
Thank you as well for your compliments. I am running out of ideas and things to post. The main struggle is finding time to research math problems. I guess for this activity, as long as I get the basic outline of everything and the problems do not go with the exact curriculum, I can always changes the problems when I do get into the classroom to fit the book. Again, thank you and I will hopefully have more detail of directions and the such next week.
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