| Bingo is an increasingly popular activity with | | | | classes; this is because there are a variety of |
| teachers looking for interesting, challenging, and | | | | ways to play the game. For example, the bingo |
| fun activities to use as teaching aids in their | | | | cards might be printed with math problems, and |
| classrooms. There are many reasons why this is | | | | students must write in the (correct) answers |
| happening, but underlying all of them is the fact | | | | rather than simply mark items from their cards. |
| that teachers are recognizing the suitability of | | | | Or the cards might contain numbers, and when |
| bingo to educational environments. For example, | | | | the teacher calls out a problem, the student must |
| teachers know that bingo is not only easy for | | | | find the corresponding number. Or when teaching |
| students to learn (and fun for them to play), but | | | | fractions, the same number might be presented in |
| they also can see the game can be easily | | | | different ways (e.g. 3/6 versus 2/4 versus 1/2), |
| adapted to different subjects or lesson plans, and | | | | and students might be required to solve this type |
| that it can be played using ordinary inexpensive | | | | of conversion problem in order to get an item |
| materials. | | | | marked off their card. |
| Pretty much all educational variants of bingo are | | | | For all the different educational versions of bingo, |
| played using special custom bingo cards. These | | | | the main thing that teachers need is suitable bingo |
| cards are printed with items specific to the | | | | cards. The best way to get them is to print them |
| subject of the lesson being taught, rather than | | | | from your computer - get some bingo card |
| the usual numbers, so for example, in an English | | | | generator software, and it becomes very easy to |
| class, the items might be words that students are | | | | generate as many as you want. This is much |
| learning to read, in a science class, the items | | | | better and cheaper than buying preprinted bingo |
| might be names of chemicals or elements, and in | | | | cards, because you can use the software again |
| a geography class, the items might be names of | | | | and again, and you can also customize the cards' |
| cities, states or countries. | | | | content to your heart's content. |
| Bingo is particularly suitable for use in math | | | | |