Math Olympics 

Math olympics is a great way to make math fun and engaging for you students. By having them create teams and dress in corresponding colours, they are working on collaboration and group skills right from the beginning. As they move through the different activities, groups are able to work on multiple problems as well as different concepts. Math olympics takes the ownership off of teacher directed learning, and allows for more students directed thinking to occur. I would use math olympics at the end of a unit before a test as a way to review what we have done. Because students move through stations, math olympics allows students to move through all the different parts of the unit we have covered in a timely manner without feeling like they are overwhelmed with the concepts. How I would set this up is by having an olympic trophy and each unit counts as a different "event." Students would stay in the same groups throughout the year and at the end of each unit, we would do a math olympics and the winning team would have their team name placed on the trophy. Another way I would incorporate math olympics into the classroom is by having it after we get back from a long break as a way to refresh students about the concepts. This may be after Christmas break or March break, for example.