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 …
Review Games
[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 …