Roll The Dice

Here’s something to make your assignment collection more interesting.  I routinely assign five homework problems.  Then I collect one of them.  I decide which one to collect by rolling the dice.

http://homepages.findlay.edu/trusty/dice/

Of course, there are six possible numbers.  I treat the six like a freebie.  If it comes up, I don’t collect anything.  You would think the students would want the six to come up every time.  That’s not the case.  If one homework problem was easy, they would prefer that number to come up.  That way it’s easy points.  Ten out of ten is better than zero out of zero.

Have fun with it.