Using Gamification to Teach Students to Be Independently Accountable for Their Learning
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Best Practices Night - 2025
Ari Novick
Cypress Bay HS - Weston, FL
QED-math.com
- Warm-up
How I Use Them
- Warm-up
- Suggested Practice
How I Use Them
- Warm-up
- Suggested Practice
- "Your next quiz will be screenshots of this"
How I Use Them
Reasons I Like Using Applets Like These
- No Score Tracking
- No Completion Tracking
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Low Pressure
- No Log-in
- No Navigating Pages
2
Spontaneous Practice
- Important for our audience
- Healthy Understanding of Learning Process
3
Builds Good Habits
Obvious Other Benefits
- Friendly Competition
- Increased motivation
1
Gamified = Fun
- High flyers engaged
- Developing learners engaged
- The former helping the latter
2
Wide Engagement
- Instant Results
- Infinite Question Bank
- Algorithm Based Custom Feedback
3
All the Traditional Pros of Online Problems
Obvious Other Benefits
- Instant Results
- Infinite Question Bank
- Algorithm Based Custom Feedback
3
All the Traditional Pros of Online Problems
Some Tips
(Your Mileage May Vary)
- Teachers should attempt before sharing
- Try it in front of students
- Celebrate success loudly
- Celebrate success silly-ily
- Avoid tying to grades
Students grow disillusioned with math when they come to see it as a set of procedures to memorize.
– Marilyn Carlson (paraphrased)