Speed Dating Activity for Absolute Value, Opposite, Reciprocal, in addition to Opposite Reciprocal

Speed Dating is i of my favorite ways to teach students out of their spot to practice. I exclusively purpose this exercise construction amongst topics that permit students to speedily do a work inwards their head. If a work type requires students to present run to figure out the answer, I volition conduct a dissimilar construction such equally a question stack.

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

1. Create a deck of cards that has a query on i side too the respond on the other side.
2. Pass out the cards to students amongst the query side facing up.
3. Instruct each pupil to solve the work inwards front end of them earlier checking their respond past times flipping the menu over.
4. Have students stand upwardly up too abide by a partner.
5. Students conduct maintain turns quizzing their partner too coaching/praising them.
6. Once the duo 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 finish is to reckon equally many people equally possible inwards equally piddling fourth dimension equally possible. At the terminate of each "mini date," y'all merchandise information inwards instance y'all after determine y'all desire to arrive contact. My high schoolhouse students ordinarily dearest the analogy. If y'all don't intend your students tin handgrip the dating analogy, y'all tin telephone outcry upwardly this activity it's other mutual name: Quiz, Quiz, Trade.

Our outset speed dating activity of this twelvemonth was created to review the next vocab words: absolute value, opposite, reciprocal, too contrary reciprocal. In the past, I've done speed dating amongst recognizing inequalities, naming polynomials, significant figures, too logarithms.

This summer, I had an epiphany. Normally, I either mitt write my speed dating cards (works inwards a pinch, but makes it difficult to share) or type them upwardly inwards publisher too print/laminate them (lots of work, but slow to share/reuse). Last year, I had a peril to purchase a BUNCH of printable work organisation cards (affiliate link) from NAEIR.

These conduct maintain been a game changer for making reusable activities for my classroom. After I run them through my printer, I simply snap them apart too spot them inwards a pocket-size ziplock baggie for each group. No laminating too no cutting needed!

Here are a few instance cards:

Front

Back

Front

Back

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

My business menu sheets (affiliate link) conduct maintain 10 cards each, too then I made 2 sheets for a total of twenty cards. My largest cast this twelvemonth has xvi students, too then this was plenty.

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

Questions:

Answers:

Questions:

Answers:

I intentionally printed the questions inwards a bold font too the answers inwards a pocket-size font too then that students couldn't easily reckon the answers through the cards. Believe me, my students tried!

If y'all don't conduct maintain access to Avery Clean Edge Business Cards (affiliate link), y'all tin yet impress them on cardstock too cutting them apart. You'll simply require to cut unopen to the edges amongst the newspaper chopper too then all of the cards come upwardly out the same size.

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