Regents Review Questions and Ideas

Diana Callahan and Anna Shapiro

Questions to ask before structuring Regents Review for Algebra and Geometry classes:

1. How can we keep students interested and motivated?
a) Are games academically beneficial or just entertaining?
b)How can we make review more interactive and get all students involved?




2. What is the best way to structure a review?


We are deciding if it's better to review by topic or just to go through practice questions in the order they were asked on the past exams.




3. What are the best strategies for retention?
a) Does assigning practice questions for homework help?

Idea: Students create index cards by topic to help them retain information. They must complete their own research on each topic. They can use chrome books, notebooks, laptops from classroom, past review sheets, and any other resources they may have. The index cards will be used to help them solve practice Regents problems.

Another Idea: Students will create their own review sheet using methods as described above with the index cards. For this activity, students will be split into groups by topic. They will use laptops to do research and be required to write key ideas, find 3 Regents questions and solve them using the methods described in the review sheet.