Plickers--Have you tried them?

Hopefully, you have heard about Plickers.  If not, go to the website to learn more.

Plickers are cards that students use to respond to multiple choice questions presented by you on the SMARTBoard.  Once the child has an answer, you use your smartphone or Ipad to scan the room and "pick up" their answers.  Each person's card is individualized so that they can't compare it to someone else's for a right answer.  Individualization also helps you to see who is getting the right answer and who isn't.

The site will tell you how many had the right answer for each question both at the time and after you are done.  You feed the program the questions you want to ask.  You can ask all of the questions at once, or you can just ask one or two to get feedback on the day's lesson.

Last year, when I used this site, I emailed the Plickers people to ask if teachers could share question sets.  They told me that capability would come in the near future.  It looks like to me that it is not ready for that yet.  However, if you create a question set in word, then other people who want the questions just need to copy and paste it into their own account to use it.  Once the question set is in, the questions can be used as often as desired.

Your IMC specialist should be able to help you with this program if you would like, but I am also happy to help you figure out ways to use this in your math class.

I have made a question set for U2--4th grade, U2--1st grade, U3--2nd grade, and U3--5th grade.  You can copy and paste these into your Plicker account to use if you wish.  Good luck!

U2 Plickers--1st grade

U2 Plickers--4th grade

U3 Plickers--2nd grade

U3 Plickers--5th grade