Matching Activity as a Formative Assessment


This activity will allow you to quickly assess how well your students are understanding the your material just by looking at their worksheets… Yes, it is just this easy. 
How to assess this quickly and make it fun for your students?
Imagine a typical matching worksheet with two columns and either drawing lines or writing the letter next to the problem number.  Now let’s create the matching activity where each question needs more than one answer such as a math question asking for the domain, range, graph, etc.  by having students cut out all of the possible answers of a worksheet and then pasting them into the correct places on the answer sheet. 
I used this activity with my twelfth grade students and found it very effective as a formative assessment as well as very engaging for all of my students.


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