Standard 5, Objective
4-Teaching fractions, decimals, and percents
BINGO
This is a background knowledge assessment we came up with that will not only encourage your students to get involved and be excited about it, but also help you as a teacher to see exactly where they are at, as individuals and as a group.
Adaptations: Standard BINGO cards that have a small 4 photo copied in the corner of each square.
1.
Pass out a BINGO card to each group-about 4 students in each group would be sufficient.
2.
Play BINGO using a standard BINGO card and explain to the students that a BINGO results from obtaining 5 spaces in any direction.
3.
Play BINGO as explained
4.
When a group yells out “BINGO”, everyone stops playing the game, but does not clear the board.
5.
The class, together, then assesses one group's BINGO card.
6.
As the teacher, you would ask questions like:
1.
Can you multiply the number of columns by the number or rows to figure out the number of spaces on the whole BINGO card?
2.
If they were all covered up, what fraction would that be?
3.
Why don't we count to see how much of the group's board is covered up?
4.
Put it in fraction form (covered spaces over the whole board).
5.
What is the fraction that is not covered?
Percent:
1.
To figure the percent, ask the students to multiply each of the 25 squares by the small photocopied 4. Make sure they make the connection that 25x4=100 or 100%.
2.
Now ask the students to assess the group's BINGO card, by multiplying the 5 spaces x 4 = 20. Ask the students what is the percent of one BINGO?
And continue on with questions of that sort until it is determined if the students have an understanding of the topic being discussed.
Special Needs Students: BINGO will allow students with special needs to evaluate each BINGO by checking the numbers called to the groups' numbers.