I’m always looking for low-prep, interactive/collaborative practice structures to offer a variety of ways for my learners to hone their skills. One of my favorite structures is “Around the Room.” Depending on the format, you may also see this referred to as a scavenger hunt.
Basically, you find a series of practice problems for your topic. I usually just pull from a textbook or a worksheet. Then you type each of these in large font. I usually type one question per slide in a Google slides document. For questions with numerical answers, you can make this into a scavenger hunt. This is just like a chain activity, but with learners standing rather than sitting.
Next, you post the questions throughout your classroom. I tape them to the walls, file cabinet, and to the whiteboard. Students grab a partner and a clipboard as well as a sheet of paper to complete the problems. If the solutions are complex, learners move from one question to the next at random. If the solutions are numerical and you created a scavenger hunt, they start with any question and then find that solution to determine the next problem that they solve. This continues until you get back to the first question again (for scavenger hunts) or until you’ve completed all of the questions (around the room).
Here are a few examples that you can use/modify. I welcome your questions, comments, and compliments :)
Consumer Math
Depreciating a Car Scavenger Hunt
Annual Percentage Rate Scavenger Hunt
Credit Card Finance Charges Scavenger Hunt
Investing in Real Estate Scavenger Hunt
Statistics
Sampling Distributions Around the Room
Designing Experiments Around the Room
Normal Distribution Around the Room
Significance Tests of Slopes Around the Room
Describing and Comparing Distributions Around the Room
Parameter and Statistics for Linear Regression Around the Room
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