Math Game Ideas For High School
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Question: Any ideas for good review games for students?
I am a first year high school math teacher. I have some fun ideas for review games before tests to use with my students. We have played all sorts of games like Jeopardy, Basketball, even variations of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. I like to use these games because the kids get really involved and excited about learning when it's fun. But I'm always looking for more ideas to help my students. Are there any ideas you might have for fun review games for high schoolers?
Answer: I know you mentioned Jeopardy already, but there are a few sites on the internet that allow you to download a PowerPoint Jeopardy program. If you have an Infocus in your classroom, the kids really get into this kind of review. Some of the PP's come with the Jeopardy sounds and everything!
I do a thing called a Waterfall with my kids in math, but it's more for skills related tests. I line the kids up facing eachother in their desks. Let's say it's 7 kids and 7 kids. I make review worksheets with, maybe, 10 problems on each one. I make 7 worksheets. It's technically a game of speed, so it's only sensible for a homogeneous class where no one will be embarrassed by slow processing speed. The first person on each team gets a stack of the 7 worksheets. I set the timer for something like 45 seconds or something. It depends on the worksheet. You click the timer and the first person on each team starts doing the work on the first worksheet. They do as many problems as they can and then you yell "Waterfall" and they give that sheet to the next person in line. They start on the next one, and so forth and so on. When the last person finishes the last sheet, i.e. you yell "time", the team with the most CORRECT answers wins. I give out free homework passes or something like that.
Whole Brain Teaching: High School Math
Math Games Pacman
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Question: Have u ever played Pacman?? Ive been playin it every night for tht last 3 weeks or?
so. its totally addicting. i play it here in case yer interested.. http://kidrocket.org/game_pacman_fullscreen.php
So far ive gotten to level 9! also, when i play if i dont get a free guy at 1st level i always reset it.
ive missed 2 chemistry lab reports and math homework cuz of this game.
so what do you think of pacman????
try it, it might ruin your homework too!
yeah i know its real stupid game, but i like it. I dont live in shithole i live in san diego.
Theres some guy that made a movie about pacman. he got like kazillion points or something. the world champion pacman-man.
Answer: How old are you? I remember religiously watching the Pac-man cartoon on USA network cartoon express and playing Pac-man Jr and Pac-land at the arcade and being hooked on Pac-Attack for SNES. My current favorite is Pac-Mania, and I have Pac-Man Fever on my Mp3 player in my 80's stuff. I got an Xbox360 partly for Pac-man Championship, the final game by the Pac-man guy Torou Iwatani before his retirement, and every console I have has to have at least one version of the game. I also had a tin Pac-Man lunchbox and vaguely remember eating Pac-Man cereal and playing with the Pac-Man and ghost marshmallows. I collected Pac-Man bubblegum cards and stickers, today I play the Pac-Man scratch & wins.
To me, the ghosts have their cartoon personalities, which helps me predict their movement. Blinky's the sniveling coward, Pinky's tough but stupid guy, Inky's the crosseyed idiot, and Clyde's the bossy leader (Clyde and Blinky were switched in the cartoon but I know the difference and switch colors so it's accurate, Blinky = red bossy leader & Clyde = orange coward, a problem rectified in Pac-Mania)
They should just release a game with every single Pac-Man on it, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Super Pac-Man, Pac-Man Jr., Baby Pac-Man, Pac & Pal, Pac-Man Plus, Mr. and Mrs. Pac-Man, Pac-Land, Pac-Mania, Pac-Attack, Pac-Man Championship... *sigh* an arcade cabinet like that's waiting for me in heaven
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