Comments on: Speed Dating Activity for Absolute Value, Opposite, Reciprocal, and Opposite Reciprocal https://mathequalslove.net/speed-dating-activity-for-absolute/ Lessons Taught and Lessons Learned as a High School Math Teacher Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:09:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 By: Unknown https://mathequalslove.net/speed-dating-activity-for-absolute/comment-page-1/#comment-494 Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:32:06 +0000 #comment-494 In reply to Nancy in Indiana.

When I do it, I tell them that they can't date the same question they have already seen. Since they are switching cards, they can date the same person multiple times, but not the same question. I also call myself the matchmaker. When ever someone seems to be slow to pair up, I pair them with someone else. You could also try telling them that they need to have a specified number of dates. As far as the concentric circles, you can split the class in two and tell one group to form a circle. Once that is done, tell the remaining group to go stand in front of someone in the circle. This is the fastest way I know to set them up. Good luck!!

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By: Nancy in Indiana https://mathequalslove.net/speed-dating-activity-for-absolute/comment-page-1/#comment-493 Sat, 07 Oct 2017 12:20:08 +0000 #comment-493 I use speed dating in my German 2 class to practice past participles. It's kind of like walking flash cards. It works quite well, but one problem I run into is that students don't necessarily "date" all of the possible past participles if they just move around the room randomly. Do you have this problem, or are your classes small enough that it isn't an issue? Last time I tried a more organized setup where students formed two concentric circles and one circle rotated to find a new date. It took FOREVER to get my classes set up to do this, but it seemed to increase the number of different words they saw. Just wondering if you have this issue too?

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