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Things a commerce class argues about.

10 activities, and every one of them asks the room to commit to a judgement before it finds out. Not a definition to recite: a case to decide, in rupees, with the rule named afterwards so the person who got it wrong learns the rule rather than the answer.

Four ways to run one.

A library that only works when the wifi does is a library that goes unused. Most activities here run more than one way, and the pack decides which.

On thirty phones
A six digit code and a QR on the screen. Nobody installs anything and nobody makes an account. Scored live, and the standings go up where the room can see them.
On the board alone
No devices in the room at all. The options stay on screen and the room answers out loud. This is the version that still works the week phones are in a box at the door.
Printed and cut up
Card sorts and worksheets with a facilitation script and an answer key, each section on its own sheet so the key never shares a page with the handout.
In a computer lab
A spreadsheet task and the same file with every figure in it. The answers are computed by a calculator rather than typed, because a room checks those in real time.

Everything in the library.

10 activities

QuizPulse

Upload the chapter you are teaching and get questions written from it, or bring your own. Timed rounds, live scoreboard, and four winners named at the end rather than one.

quiz20 minEasyup to 200
How it runs

Signal or Noise

Fast rounds where the room judges whether a data point is real signal or just noise. Three question sets: alternative data, earnings and economics, or what a business looks like from inside.

quiz15 minIntermediateup to 200
How it runs

LivePulse

Read the mood of the room in half a minute. Ask how it is landing, what nobody followed, or what they think, and every answer arrives at once. Word clouds assemble themselves as people type.

polling10 minEasyup to 300
How it runs

PhotoPulse

Set a brief, everyone submits an image, the room votes, the winner goes up on the board. Every image is checked before it appears.

creative20 minEasyup to 120
How it runs

Capital or Revenue

Does this spend buy something the business will hold for years, or is it the cost of running this year? The distinction every accounting syllabus tests and the one students answer by habit rather than by thinking.

quiz12 minEasyup to 200
How it runs

Debit or Credit

One transaction, one named account, and the room decides which side it goes on. The first thing every accounting student has to make automatic, and the thing they keep getting wrong under time pressure.

quiz12 minEasyup to 200
How it runs

Fixed, Variable or Semi-variable

How does this cost behave when output goes up? Three answers, and the third one is where every break even calculation goes wrong.

quiz14 minEasyup to 200
How it runs

Journal Card Sort

Sixteen transactions on cards. Teams decide which account is debited and which is credited, lay the cards out, and then mark each other's. No phones, no wifi, no screen.

printed25 minEasyprinted
How it runs

Cash Budget Build

A profitable business that runs out of money in the middle of the quarter. Build the cash budget in a spreadsheet, find the month it happens, and say what you would do about it.

spreadsheet45 minIntermediatespreadsheet
How it runs

An activity is a content file rather than code, which is why the list grows without a release. You can also make your own: name a topic in your course, pick what the room is deciding between, and the items are written from the chapter in your own textbook. Nothing you make is shared with anybody else.

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