10 Activities for After the Test

My colleagues and I often ask ourselves what are we going to have them do after they are done the test or if they finish the work early. I truly believe reading a book is a valuable use of time especially because this activity is coming from a math classroom. Students need to see that there is no such thing as just focusing on one subject from their teachers too. All core skills can be applied to all activities. That said, these are ten truly fun activities that I've tried with my students that get them to critically think and I don't recall ever cueing kids to task once they know what to do.

1. Decimal points and place values - The numbers must be placed in order. Good strategy game where place value know how is a must. 
2. 2048 - Very addictive type of game in a Tetris type of mode. The only problem is that sometimes it's blind guess and check. It will give good exponent of two practice and area of rectangle components.
3. Get to 10 - The more fun version of "practice your flashcards."
4. Get to 24 - Not the best lay out for a site, but good problems along the same lines as Get to 10.
5. Ages of 3 Kids - From the Dr. Math website. Good for number sense.
6. Three Chips - From the vast library of Fawn Ngyuen. Good problem to give when students are done all of their work or as a warm up.
7. Fractions & Percentages - I go with the non-digital version of this in class and incorporate decimals, but once again as a more fun version of "practice your flashcards."
8. 4 Strikes & You're Out - Marilyn Burns, the game's creator, calls it a math version of hangman. As I was reading the article, it became clear that 35 + 10 was never more enjoyable.
9. Foxy Fives - From Fawn Ngyuen. Very similar to get to 10 - order of operations practice for the advanced orderofoperationsologist.
10. Connect Four - Make the hundreds grid come to life a little by having students partner up with two different colors attempting to get four in a row.