No Series: Math Team Challenge

Math Team Challenge

Lesson Objective: Students compete in groups receiving hints but not the answers

Grades 6-12 / Math / Fun Competition

5 MIN

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What is Mr. Morris's role during this activity?
What is the purpose of probing questions?
How does Mr. Morris use the spreadsheet to motivate students?
How does he wrap up the day's lesson with the whole class?

3 Comments

Taishen Liu Mar 1, 2021 4:15pm

Making full use the Excel spreadsheet enables the students to see where they are and how other teams are doing, thus providing great motivation for the whole activity.

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Caroline Ashkar Nov 6, 2013 10:48am

Beautiful lesson, just wondering how long is the Math class?

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Michael VILLANUEVA Aug 5, 2013 7:03am

I love how your teams are so actively engaged and all b/c of a little team competition. Thanks for sharing, Mr. Morris.

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A KS4 GCSE math revision lesson that is used as a means of assessing students' understanding of a recently completed

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Summary

A KS4 GCSE math revision lesson that is used as a means of assessing students' understanding of a recently completed module of work.
The concept of the lesson was created by Gary Morris, AST Math teacher at William Parker Sport College, Hasting. The lesson is extremely popular and plays to the students' competitive nature. It works particularly well with grade C/D borderline students, having had a dramatic effect on the results the students get.
Team Challenge is a format that can be applied to many different mathematical topics, but in this featured lesson Gary is using it to assess his students understanding in statistics.
All resources required to run this lesson are supplied with the video, including lesson plan, excel score sheet and the statistical question and answer sheets.

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