Differentiated Quizzes

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Guided take one

Early I had addressed my problem with my lower level students on their quiz and a few of my top fliers as well.  So I feel like my second time around was much better.  I even used this method on the test.  I broke the problems down to find the misconceptions.  I sometimes have to scale back because I want my students to solve the most difficult of problems and they just don't have the capability because they don't understand how to solve a part of the equation.  All of my students seemed to benefit from the more broken down quiz.  I will come back and post links to the quizzes later in case you would like a copy

The new updated versions:

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Broken down

Round robin

Today I set the desks into groups of four for a round robin activity for solving multi-step equations.  I have name cards in red (pink), yellow, and green on each desk.  If the kids needed help with a question they put up the red card, yellow if they are still working, but would like for me to check behind them, and the popular green "I've got this".  Each student received 8 different problems and they only did a part of solving the equations, so they were in groups, but they couldn't cheat and everyone had a role.  I learned some things today from the activity.  For example, they need a checklist on each problem, so they know what they are doing next when they receive the next sheet. 

(Excuse the messy desk)

Each child had a different colored pencil, so I could grade the accordingly and quickly find who was still lost. 

Next, we played one-step equation bingo, this can be found here.  The kids thought it was a fun day, instead they solved 5 math equations in one class period!  They did great!