Year 8 Maths

100 questions challenge

Last week, Year 8 mathematics students completed their first assessment task for the year. To help students revise over the work and to make this work more engaging, 8MATH3 completed a 100 squares challenge. I came across this activity in a video by Edutopia: Making Math Review a High-energy Game

About the game

• Students worked individually or in pairs to answer questions.
• After each question, they checked their answer with the teacher, who then offered suggestions if the answer was wrong.
• For every correct answer, they get to ‘claim’ one numbered square in the 100-square grid on the board
• Once all numbers are claimed, subsequent correct answers will allow students to ‘steal’ squares from their opponents.

The questions varied in ability and for this class I added a few challenging questions to push their understanding beyond simple application.

At the end of the 50 minutes the students with the most number of squares were rewarded with a small chocolate bar. Well done to 8MATH3 for completing this task with such enthusiasm and proving to themselves that they really do understand the topics of Pythagoras theorem and Algebraic techniques.