I created The Great Quadrant Guessing Game several years ago to give my Pre-Calculus students some extra practice determining which quadrant of the coordinate plane was represented by two trigonometric facts. The Great Quadrant Guessing Game For example, in which quadrant is the sine of an angle positive while the cosine of the same angle …
Review Games
I created these leveled practice cards for solving absolute value equations when I taught Algebra 1. There are three levels of problems so that students can start with problems of an appropriate difficulty level. Level 1 Questions – Absolute value bars are already isolated. Level 2 Questions – Students have one step to do in …
I created this exponent rules review game in February of 2020. It exposes students to actual ACT questions from past released exams, and it gives students a chance to play the role of exam writer by crafting tricky distractors for each question. I originally crafted this review game for my Pre-Calculus students. I wanted to …
I love using X Puzzles to introduce factoring quadratics. These puzzles are also known as sum and product puzzles since the goal of the puzzle is to find the two numbers that have a given sum and product. Years ago, I found a set of 5 pages of X Puzzles. I can no longer find …
Sadly, I’m finding that a lot of my go-to review games from the past six years at my old school just aren’t working for my new school. Having 30 students in a class is very different from having 10-16 students in each class. One game that has been working well this year has been ZAP. …
I used Shaun Carter’s ZERO! Game with great success to motivate factored form of quadratics. I presented this as a “game day” after we had talked about vertex form of quadratics and standard form of quadratics and BEFORE we started factoring quadratics the next day. It was PERFECT for an Early Release Friday with shortened, …
I used this balloon pop review game to help engage my math concepts class in some much-needed equation solving review. I like this review game because it is low-prep and can be used with virtually any topic that you are looking to review! My Math Concepts class is a class for 9th graders who have …
Today, I’m incredibly pleased to share a guest post from Mandy Dyal. Mandy is a math teacher blogger that I have been following for a long time. She blogs at Math Dyal. I love seeing the interactive notebook pages she creates and the practice structures she comes up with. I also enjoy following her on …
Looking for a fun game to give your algebra students practice writing linear equations from a graph? Check out this Turkeys in the Oven Game. If it’s not Thanksgiving, feel free to change the theme to something more seasonally appropriate! Last Friday, I decided my Algebra 1 students needed a day of reviewing calculating slope …
I created this predicting products review game to give my physical science students some much needed practice predicting the products of chemical reactions. We combined this review with a bit of basketball to make a fun review game. My physical science students have been working on predicting products of reactions. For our first day of …
I created this ghosts in the graveyard review game to give my Algebra 1 students some much needed practice with independent vs dependent variables. Ghosts in the Graveyard is an incredibly versatile review game structure that I learned about from Math Tales From the Spring. It’s October, so the theme is appropriate. But, you could …
[Today’s guest post is by Lisa Winer. She has been blogging about teaching math at Eat Play Math since 2014! Her blog posts are always so enjoyable to read, and I love how personal and vulnerable she allows herself to be in her writing. I definitely recommend that you check out her blog. You can …
This leap frog review game is fast-paced and fun. It works great for any math topic where students have a limited choice of possible answers. I learned about this review game while attending a session titled “Taking the Practice Out of the Worksheet” by Judy Schwarz of Moore Public Schools at the Oklahoma Council of …
So, I’ve been in the processing of trying to clean out my drafts folder in blogger. Most of these drafts are just titles that were meant to remind me what I should get around to blogging about. Sadly, I don’t remember what a lot of these titles are even referring to, so they’ve been deleted. …
This Four in a Row Review Game was inspired by Fawn Nguyen. There are the days when I spend hours crafting an awesome practice activity for my students. Then, there are the days where I show up to school and need to figure out what all 3 preps are doing for the day during my …
This Risk Review Game was inspired by Julie Morgan. She calls the game “Risk It All.” I’ve done a paper-based version of RISK before, but this was my first time using it with dry erase boards. I played this with 5/6 of my classes on Wednesday. Each class proclaimed that the game was fun and …
Place Your Bets is a review game I created to spice up our end-of-year review for our state end-of-instruction exam. I have a gambling problem. No, it’s not what you think. I’m actually not a gambler. I’ve never set foot in a casino in my life. Though, my student council kids certainly tried to get …
After creating a foldable book of exponent rules, my students needed some practice problems. This was the perfect time to pull out an exponent rules card sort activity. The card sort activity is actually meant as a game called karuta, but we’ll talk about the game version in a little bit. I’ve found from experience …
To kick off our review of exponent rules, we played an exponent rules review game that I found on Nathan Kraft’s blog. Without telling the students what we were doing, I told them all to go write their name on the dry erase board and draw four x’s below. First hour, one of my students …
So, I’m about to share an idea for a describing graphs game with you that I have no idea if it would actually work. I haven’t tried this out in my classroom. One of the presenters at the conference I’m at this week presented an idea yesterday for bellwork. I’m kinda attached to my current …
Original Version of Flyswatter Review Game I created this flyswatter review game to give my Algebra 1 students practice identifying the different forms of linear equations. A little over a week ago, my Algebra 1 students took their test over graphing linear equations. This test covered finding slope, x and y intercepts, graphing linear equations, …
Today I want to share with you the best activity ever for reviewing square roots. This is the first time I have ever taught my students to simplify square roots. So, it may not be the best activity ever. But, I can tell you that I have never had more engaged students in my Algebra …
Well, after attending the Global Math Department‘s meeting over favorite review games, I knew I had to try out Alisan Royster‘s Review Auction idea. I created a Solving Equations Auction Review Game. I made up an auction sheet with 3 columns. The first column is pretty boring and just featured the lot number of each auction. The …
When teaching my Algebra 1 students to solve two step equations, I used a basketball game that I found online to motivate my students to do some extra practice. These were the same types of problems that I could have written on the Smart Board, but because they were in a game, my students did …