If you keep the blank bingo board printed in you file, you are ready in an instant. One reason to love bingo is that it is so versatile, and requires little prep. I have a big box of small prizes I have accumulated over the years which includes small packs of crayons, colored pencils, miniature decks of cards, dice, etc. You can get small erasers, pencils at oriental trading company for a small price and they last a long time. The rest of the year? Good prizes are stickers, small candies, pencils, erasers. I tend to use points at the end of the semester when we are reviewing for finals, it gets them very engaged and at that point, every grade can use a few points as a boost. My students like playing for points, used to replace missing assignments they may have. If you have students who are fast, use 36 answers instead to make it a little more difficult. Note, if you have just used 24 or 25 answers, this means every student will bingo at once. Or, after they students have been playing, have them play blackout, where every number is used on the card. Shown is Letter L, 6 pack and Railroad Tracks. You can play columns and rows only (no diagonals allowed). Postage stamp is 9 answers in a block anywhere on the card (much harder to check). You can play 4 corners, where students just need a right answer in each of the 4 corners. However, there is no reason WHY you have to play the standard game, just let the students know in advance. A number is called, if the student has the number on their card, they mark it and when they have 5 in a row, column or on the diagonal, they win. Whatever variation you play they are the usual directions. I used to naturally assume that EVERYONE knew how to play bingo. Over the years, I have become better at explaining how to play games before we begin. The salesman thought they said “Bingo” and the game got the name we know it by today. Years later, a salesman noticed a game using beans at a carnival booth in 1929 where the winner yelled “beano” because they were using beans as markers for the boards. It originated in Italy and spread to Europe. History of Bingoīingo has been around forever, nearly 500 years. But I’m usually “one number away” from winning. Mine too, I am a keen bingo player and have been known to sit for hours in a bingo parlor trying to get lucky. One of my students favorite games is Bingo. So in math class, when we play games we are making it easier to learn those math skills. When we play a game, it lowers our stress level and makes it easier to focus. It isn’t all fun and games in a math class–but it could be, and probably should.
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