“This is a fun way to do morning work!” “Can we do the same 
thing again tomorrow?” Believe it or not, these were some of the comments made by the members of our class after a lesson introducing them to the style of questions found on the MCAS math test. What made the difference? A technology tool called ACTIVote.
ACTIVote was created by Promethean for use with the Activboard. After posing a multiple choice question to the class, each student can enter their selection A-E from a list by pushing a corresponding button. The class can then view the results in graph form. This allows us to automatically check the class for immediate understanding and each person is held accountable for an answer. Although the students do not know how their friends in the class answered the questions, the results can be printed out privately for the teacher in spread sheet form.
