You control the event.
Who wouldn’t give their eye teeth to be able to close the door and do your thing? So, you work the Challenge Station and I assist as the answer checker (or vice versa).
Keys
- No music, group flags/place markers, etc. Just a one-one-one with students Challenge Station(see below) & smaller token tubes.
- The rules are yours. Helping your students is completely up to you.
- Use smaller/fewer & more/less groups as necessary.
- Run it in as little as 30 minutes. No class line up or transition time. I walk in and we get to it.
- Make it fit your schedule. Several events can be run for different classes in one day.
- Use as few as 12 questions. You still pick them from the Question Bank.
- Make questions specific to the needs of your class.
Watch the joy of my 4th/5th classroom from years ago.
Students love a challenge!
Roll The Dice. Student vs. Student or 1 student alone Challenge Station. 6-sided, 12-sided dice in any combination you want. Add, subtract, or multiply.
How about 30-sided dice to ask students to name sum of two dice as prime/composite and, if composite, name the factors?
Or, skip the dice and use flash cards. You are limited only by your imagination.
Pirate's Challenge - AKA "Pirate Math" 