Set The Hook.
Follow me:
  • Home
  • Fishin' Solo Blog
  • MTBoS
  • Table Talk Math
  • The Classroom Chef
  • Would You Rather...?
  • Meet the Fisherman
    • Resume
  • Flipping 2.0
    • Flipping Your Classroom
    • Troubleshooting a flipped classroom
  • Choose Your Own Assessment
    • Student Work Samples
  • Apps In Class
  • Pre-made Math Lessons

Socrative Saves the Day

1/25/2013

0 Comments

 
Finishing up with our first full week of BYOD integration, we decided to use Socrative Teacher and Socrative Student to host a mini-quiz about multiplying polynomials.  I send out a quick reminder to the class using Remind101 to ensure that they came in with the Socrative Student app already downloaded.  We had our lesson, went through a couple practice problems, and then started the quiz.

Logistics:

I had never worked with Socrative before, but it was a simple program to learn. 
  • Sign up for an account and make sure that your email address is something that you can access from school.  More on that later.  
  • Write down the Room Number that you have been given
  • Create a Quiz
  • Once you have students logged into your room number, assign the quiz
  • Students take the quiz and feel awesome
Picture
Creating the quiz was easy, but a word of note about the explanation- it shows up after the problem has been attempted.  Therefore, my explanation of "multiply" was really confusing for the students once they submitted their solution.  In the future, I will be using the explanation to give the students a brief summary of the problem without giving away the solution.

Once the students are finished with the quiz, you can easily end the activity to close out any other responses.  One of the best features is that you can have the results emailed to you for review and grading purposes.  I was able to view the submitted results as a quick way to check for accuracy, knowing that some students accidentally put in the wrong number or submitted too early.  This was their first check, followed by me checking their work on the paper that was turned in.  It was a great way to get a quick check for understanding on the key concepts that we were working on.  In reality, most of the students who made a mistake simply for got an x or a squared.  Those are easy mistakes to correct.
Picture
All in all, it was a pretty incredibly day to finish up an amazing week of BYOD in room 205.  There are still a lot of bumps in the road to work through, but the kids love it and I am thrilled about the challenge of conquering something new.

Happy Fishing
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    RSS Feed

    Picture

    Author

    Math nerds tend to have a reputation for being math nerds.  I'm here to continue that trend.

    For more blog posts, click HERE

    Picture

    Archives

    July 2020
    April 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    November 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012

    RSS Feed

Not that you would do anything crazy, but here:
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
Photos used under Creative Commons from timlewisnm, leppre, KristinNador, Jarosław Pocztarski, Martin Pettitt