FUN Testing Practice!

Since I am my school’s math coach, all during the year I announce a problem of the week to the students at our morning assembly.  Each problem of the week is a multiple choice released item test question.  Students answer the question and explain how they know the answer, and then they place their answer through the slot in the answer boxes I have set up in the hallway.  At the end of the week, I pull one answer from the box at our morning assembly and the winners get a prize.  Since I have a question for primary kids and for intermediate kids, there are two boxes and I pull a winner from each box.  The afternoon before  I pull a winner, I check to make sure the students’ answers are correct, and I eliminate the wrong submissions and the submissions that are not explained.

In addition to having a problem of the day submission on a school wide basis, some teachers have created their own personal classroom problem of the day boxes to practice questions that are more often missed.  They pull a name from the box daily and reward the winner.