Speed Dating Activeness For Absolute Value, Opposite, Reciprocal, Too Contrary Reciprocal

Speed Dating is 1 of my favorite ways to teach students out of their topographic point to practice. I alone run this practise construction alongside topics that permit students to speedily do a occupation inwards their head. If a occupation type requires students to exhibit piece of work to figure out the answer, I volition select a unlike construction such every bit a question stack.

In instance you're non familiar alongside the premise of speed dating inwards the classroom, here's a brief overview:

1. Create a deck of cards that has a inquiry on 1 side in addition to the reply on the other side.
2. Pass out the cards to students alongside the inquiry side facing up.
3. Instruct each educatee to solve the occupation inwards front end of them earlier checking their reply past times flipping the carte over.
4. Have students stand upwards up in addition to abide by a partner.
5. Students guide keep turns quizzing their partner in addition to coaching/praising them.
6. Once the twain has successfully answered both questions, the partners should merchandise cards.
7. Find a novel partner.
8. Repeat.

So, why is it called speed dating?

In speed dating, the destination is to run into every bit many people every bit possible inwards every bit lilliputian fourth dimension every bit possible. At the halt of each "mini date," you lot merchandise information inwards instance you lot after create upwards one's heed you lot desire to become far contact. My high schoolhouse students ordinarily dear the analogy. If you lot don't intend your students tin grip the dating analogy, you lot tin telephone telephone this activity it's other mutual name: Quiz, Quiz, Trade.

Our starting fourth dimension speed dating activity of this twelvemonth was created to review the next vocab words: absolute value, opposite, reciprocal, in addition to reverse reciprocal.  In the past, I've done speed dating alongside recognizing inequalities, naming polynomials, significant figures, in addition to logarithms. 

This summer, I had an epiphany. Normally, I either manus write my speed dating cards (works inwards a pinch, but makes it difficult to share) or type them upwards inwards publisher in addition to print/laminate them (lots of work, but slow to share/reuse). Last year, I had a adventure to purchase a BUNCH of printable describe of piece of work concern cards (affiliate link) from NAEIR.

These guide keep been a game changer for making reusable activities for my classroom. After I run them through my printer, I merely snap them apart in addition to set them inwards a modest ziplock baggie for each group. No laminating in addition to no cutting needed!

Here are a few illustration cards:

Front

Back

Front

Back

Here's some activeness shots of my students during our speed dating adventure. It was in addition to thus difficult to block out their precious faces because they were total of smiles in addition to laughter. You could genuinely say that my students were enjoying themselves piece practicing algebra! 

My business carte sheets (affiliate link) guide keep 10 cards each, in addition to thus I made ii sheets for a total of xx cards. My largest course of written report this twelvemonth has sixteen students, in addition to thus this was plenty.


Have a peek at what my templates ended upwards looking like!

Questions:

 

Answers:

 

Questions:

 

Answers: 

I intentionally printed the questions inwards a bold font in addition to the answers inwards a modest font in addition to thus that students couldn't easily reckon the answers through the cards. Believe me, my students tried!

If you lot don't guide keep access to Avery Clean Edge Business Cards (affiliate link), you lot tin withal impress them on cardstock in addition to cutting them apart. You'll merely take away to trim back roughly the edges alongside the newspaper chopper in addition to thus all of the cards come upwards out the same size.

You tin download the file to brand your ain gear upwards here.

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