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Oddly enough I found a great 'trick' for this. Kids hate doing math tests, but turn it into a competition and game and suddenly they love it. Print out a bunch
by somenameforme 2y ago
Oddly enough I found a great 'trick' for this. Kids hate doing math tests, but turn it into a competition and game and suddenly they love it. Print out a bunch of remedial problems, perhaps 50. And then give them 1 or 2 minutes to do as many as they can. It's just a contest to improve against your own scores over time, with prizes for the kids who score the highest after a month or whatever.
It's still literally just a math test/quiz, but somehow the context changes everything and even kids who really aren't into math were loving it, and also improving rapidly because the repetition helps instill intuition.
- greggsy 2y agoThere’s a fine line between chores and games. Imagine having to move a round thing around some other people to get that thing into a square frame. Then, imagine that you can only use your feet!
- procaryote 2y agoclever! I imagine the part of a test people dislike is failing, and the consequences from failing. Framing it as a game without those emotional stakes fixes that. If the teaching environment was set up to encourage learning rather than punish not having learnt yet we might not need these tricks, but that culture is slow to change