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For this activity, students are required to do 16 different problems on cards. This activity is good to use because the students have to get up and move around, but they are still doing math. It would be good for a review before a quiz or test, a practice activity after notes, or just an activity to practice their skills with this very important topic.
Lexie- Liked the idea of the Order of Oprations Review. What if you also had the answers placed around the room? After a team of players had solved the problem, they would match it with the answer, and pick up another problem to work. It would allow for more team work and for activity besides just working the problem on paper.
November 4, 2010
hello, great idea. When you said they move around, do you place cards around the room.
August 20, 2011
First, sorry it took me time to get back to you. Yes, you can place them around the room. But what I did in the past was I had them stacked in the front of the room and they would come up and get 1 card at a time.
August 29, 2011
Lexie, I'm looking at the instructions for the Order of Operations Review Cards.My question is about your description that kids "get up and move around"? I'm thinking that there must be something I'm missing. Are the cards distributed some way? It sounds like fun.
June 16, 2010
Sorry that it took me awhile to get back to your question. I have been traveling and have not had access to the internet but by using my phone...which does not allow me to see my Q & A page.
What I did for this activity, is I made 2 copies of the problems onto card stock paper. I can't remember if the problems are numbered, but if they are not, I suggest hand writing numbers or letters in the corners so it will be easier for the kids to know what they have done and still need to do. Plus, it will be easier for you to grade.
Once I hand each student a card, they work out the problem on a peice of paper (that will be turned in), and have to get up and get the next card they want to use. I usually have about 10 extra at the front table, so students that are a little shy will just keep going up there instead of working with neighbors. Usually though, by the end of the activity, the students are working together and helping each other with cards. But, I still suggest circling the classroom to help and assure that they are not just copying. Of course, let them know that you will accept just answers, that they must show their work!
HOpe that helps :)
June 20, 2010
This is currently my 13th year teaching high school math. I started my career teaching in Quincy, Florida for 2 years. After that I moved to Charlotte, North Carolina for 3 years. I tried it back home where I grew up in Juneau, Alaska for 3 years. After leaving Alaska, I moved back to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where I taught for 4 years and I was the department chair for the last 3 years. My husband joined the army in 2009, and now we are in Clarksville, TN, where I am teaching.
