How To Use A Quiz Quiz Trade Activity
My students and I LOVE this activity. It gets them up and moving, gives them a chance to interact with each other and is self-checking. In a ten minute session, students can master a specific skill with the rapid repetition and immediate feedback that might otherwise take hours or days to master.
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Activity Directions:
This is a great large-group activity to use when first learning the new skill.
Instruct half of the students to stand shoulder-to-shoulder facing one direction. The other half of the students should stand should-to-shoulder with each other face-to-face with the first group of students so partners are facing each other in two long rows. Some teachers prefer to have an inner circle of students facing an outer circle of students. Either way will work as long as each student has a partner.
Each student has one Quiz Quiz Trade card to show to the facing partner. The answer is on the back of the card so the student can tell the partner if the answer is correct or can coach the partner if they make a mistake. Both partners take turns quizzing the other, then the two students trade cards.
Once each set of partners appears to be finished quizzing and trading cards, instruct both lines of students to take one step to the right to meet a new partner. Students on the right end of each line should wrap around to join the other row.
Students go through the process with their new partner to quiz each other, then trade cards. Repeat this process until students seem to have mastered the questions and finish quickly. If there are an odd number of students, the teacher can step in as a partner.
Teacher Setup:
To hand make cards, I’ve cut up old worksheets and glued graphs, tables, or equations to one side of index cards and wrote answers on the other side of the cards.
More recently I have prepared the same cards on my computer with 6 cards on a page to be printed back-to-back with the corresponding page of answers on cardstock or heavy paper. For example, I print the page with cards numbered 1 – 6 back-to-back with the answer page numbered 6 – 1 (somewhat reverse order so the printing matches cards with answers), then cut along dotted lines to create individual cards.
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For an explanation of a typical day’s list of activities, please see my articles “What To Do With Faster Students” and "A Typical Day In My Flipped Algebra Class". For more about additional activities, see "Some Of My Favorite Algebra Activities", "How To Use A Placemat Activity", "How To Use A Sum It Up Activity", and "How To Use A Problem Pass Activity".
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