We are wrapping up our first semester here
before the big Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday next week and I wanted to give my
students a fun project that would help them review for the final exam. We love
board games in my class, so any chance to integrate them into our learning, I’m
all for. This is what I like to call “hiding vegetables in the lasagna” because
it’s chock full of math, but it’s in the form of a fun board game- genius. Plus,
who doesn’t love playing board games? J
Anyway, this project was such a success last year that I thought I’d do it
again. Here’s how we did it:
Each student group is responsible for creating a
fun, challenging, and creative board game. This includes writing the game rules
and objectives, creating question cards along with some form of an answer key,
and making the actual game board. Class time and resources are available for
them to complete this task, and when it’s finished, each group presents their
game to the class. Once each group has presented their game, we take turns
playing each of them during math or at task board time and then we take a
little vote on which group had the best game. I give a little extra prize for the
class favorite, but each group is graded according to the rubric for their own
game. Here’s a copy of the project guidelines and rubric that I created if you want
to try it out with your students… Enjoy!
What other math projects have you tried?
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