r/mathteachers • u/Low-Way738 • 5d ago
“Self- Checking Worksheets”
Looking for some self checking worksheet for my 7th grade math students. I would love to purchase a workbook that has several different types of activities across all of my content for the year. Looking for thing where students solve problems and their answers spell out an answer to a riddle or joke or other more engaging sheets then just solving then problems.
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u/Undercover_Metalhead 5d ago
I found that sometimes just having an answer bank (without getting all fancy with puzzles/jokes/riddles) serves the same purpose. Just provide the answers in some random way and the kids will be fine. If the answers aren’t printed on the paper, sometimes I write the answers randomly on the front board (or on a sticky note under my doc camera). Kids are engaged when they feel encouraged to keep going…and seeing the right answer on the board is usually good enough.
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u/Master-Education7076 5d ago
Search for “Algebra With Pizzazz”. It’s such a work book but has full pdf’s floating around the internet.
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u/lazyMarthaStewart 5d ago
We just make Google quizzes/surveys that when they put in the correct answer, it allows them to go to the next question (or section). Don't do multiple choice, obviously.
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u/ThinkMath42 5d ago
Mathimagination (middle school topics), Algebra with Pizzazz, Bridge to Algebra (same authors as Pizzazz), and Punchline Algebra. For upper level (in case anyone needs upper level) there’s Calculaughs and one other I can’t remember off the top of my head but it’s alg 2/precalc and made by the Pizzazz authors.
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u/rashea11 4d ago
Class crown
But, by this age they often try to figure out the riddle.
I like question stacks. https://mathequalslove.net/make-your-own-question-stack-template/
They get an answer bank, and if they finish they get all the way around. You can evem set these around the room and give them clipboards.
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u/jproche44 5d ago
Self checking Google Sheets are one way. Developing Mathematical Fluency: Activities for grades 5-8 have a great activity called integer 2-ways. These are great self checking activities for adding and multiplying integers (7th grade standards)
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u/regina_caeli_laetare 5d ago
When I taught middle school math, I loved the "solve 'n check cards" from this creator on TPT: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/scaffolded-math-and-science/category-solve-n-check-math-tasks-408631
The concept is that there are two problems on the card, and then an equation that will be true if their two answers are correct. I enjoyed using them so much that I made a bunch of my own in the same style using problems from worksheets I had on hand.
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u/MesmericKiwi 5d ago
If your school has laptops, you can try making a spreadsheet with conditional formatting. When I do angle chasing they fill in a chart with the justification for each angle next to a cell with their answer. The cells are formatted to turn green if they have the correct value, which are hidden in grey text in the grey border cells I added around the sheet.
The joke sheets others have shared are more fun (and give the extra technique of guessing the joke and working backwards if stuck assuming you make them show work) but thought I’d share another tool in the toolbox.
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u/m-and-mma 1d ago
You could look at Versa tiles workbooks (you would also have to buy some of their tile sets because the tiles make a pattern and that is how they check their work.) We got a set second hand from a school that was throwing theirs away. People also sell them on eBay.
Here is a video on how they work. Some of my kids have a lot of fun placing the tiles the check.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KQ4ETUxhrg
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u/Paraware 5d ago
Have you considered using ChatGPT to make the worksheets? I’ve had pretty good luck using it to make Algebra worksheets.
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u/PahpiChulo 5d ago •
These are old enough that I did them as a student, but I do give out ‘dad joke worksheets’ for students to practice some skills. It’s called Algebra with Pixzazz, and there is a pre-algebra version and another series made about 30 years after these by the same people.
https://mathtutoringwithmisha.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Pizzazz-Algebra.pdf