Back To Back Activity

Duration: 40 minutes
Subject: any subject (the example provided is Integrals of Polynomials including x^(-1) and Trigonometric functions)
Material: mini-whiteboards, with pens and erasers.

This activity (pdf here) can be used to change from textbook exercises. Students are paired up. They will have to turn their chairs so that they sit back to back (hence the name of the activity). As the teacher projects exercises on a screen, students solve them individually and write their answers on their whiteboard. After a given time, all students need to raise their whiteboards to show their answers.

Each pair will earn a point if and only if BOTH students in a pair have the correct answer. If one of them doesn't have the correct answer, or if neither has the correct answer, the team won't earn any point.