You Are Teaching the Times Tables to Your Class

question 110

Multiple Choice

You are teaching the times tables to your class.Today you plan to give a timed test of the multiplication math facts.Your goal is to promote intrinsic motivation.Given what we know about intrinsic motivation, which one of the following strategies should be most effective?

• A)Tell students that you expect them to get a certain number of items correct.
• B)Promise five minutes of free time to students who get a certain number of items correct.
• C)Encourage students to see if they can do better on the test than they did last time.
• D)Put a shiny gold star on every perfect test paper.

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Definitions:

Immediate Causes

The direct events or actions leading to an outcome or effect, occurring just before the effect itself.

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The act of a region or entity declaring independence from a country or state to which it currently belongs, aiming to create a separate sovereign state.

Ostend Manifesto

A document from 1854 where US diplomats recommended the acquisition of Cuba by any means necessary, to expand the territory for slavery.

Monroe Doctrine

President James Monroe’s declaration to Congress on December 2, 1823, that the American continents would be thenceforth closed to European colonization, and that the United States would not interfere in European affairs.