Univariate Data Review: Deck Toys

Working with my colleagues, we spent one Friday afternoon creating our very first Deck.Toys for PC. That gave me some inspiration to create one for my AFM class too. I mean - Deck.Toys is a much better way to review for our test!!!

I took my boring PowerPoint review and used those for multiple choice, text, and lock questions. Not only can I add in my own questions, I can also create study sets that allow students to practice vocab with interesting activities such as concentration and mazes just to name a few.

My particular Deck.Toys covers sampling techniques, samples, population, measures of center, measures of spread, and graphical displays of data - such as box plot, dot plot, histograms, and frequency tables.

Students start out with this...

I know, I know...kinda dorky, but hey - I embrace it! They move through the board answering questions and performing activities.

My students were SO excited to use a new platform. I even had some students ask if we could do more of these before the end of the year. I call that a win.

Not only is this a fun activity for the students, but I can collect so much data from each mission. Some of my questions were open ended and required students to type in text. I can easily go back to review student's responses by clicking on the number above the text balloon.

Monitoring student progress is awesome! Here is an example of what the report looks like for a multiple choice question. I immediately know who needs more help and on what topic.

I really enjoyed creating and giving my students this activity! Every single student was engaged - even that one that never does anything on review days!!!

The best part - Deck.Toys allows you to share! There are many Deck.Toys already created in the Deck Gallery. That's were you can find my activity - Univariate Data Unit Review. To preview, click here.

I definitely will be doing another one soon. There are so many benefits to using this program! I highly suggest that you try it!!!

~RJ

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