Math Exit Ticket Generator

About this tool

An exit ticket is a short check at the end of a lesson. Three questions, a few minutes, and you know who understood the day’s idea and who needs another look tomorrow. A bell ringer does the same job at the start of class, with a few quick questions that warm students up and review earlier skills.

Pick a grade and the generator chooses three different skills from that grade, such as multiplication facts and rounding for grade 3 or slope and the Pythagorean theorem for grade 8. If you are teaching one idea today, choose that skill and every question on the ticket will practice it with new numbers.

The page prints two, four or six identical tickets, so you can cut them apart and hand one to each student. Need a second form for a make-up or a different class period? Choose Version B or C. The skills stay the same and the numbers change. The answer key lists every answer with a short explanation, which is handy when you sort tickets into got it, close and needs help.

How to use it

1. Choose a grade level. Leave the skill on the mixed setting, or choose one skill to practice it three times.
2. Pick exit tickets or a bell ringer, and choose how many tickets to print per page.
3. Choose Version A, B or C if you want parallel forms with different numbers.
4. Press Print or save as PDF, cut the tickets apart, and use Show answer key to check the answers.
5. Press New worksheet for a different set of numbers, or Copy link to share the exact same tickets.

Getting the most from an exit ticket

Sort the tickets into three piles: got it, close, and needs help. That takes about two minutes and it tells you what to do at the start of tomorrow’s class. The self-check line at the bottom lets students rate themselves, and it is often interesting to compare their rating with their answers.

Look at wrong answers for patterns. If several students add the percent amount to the original number, the idea of a percent of a number needs another example. A single odd answer is usually a slip. The same wrong answer from five students is a lesson.

Skills by grade

Grade 3 covers multiplication and division facts, 3-digit addition and subtraction, and rounding. Grade 4 covers multi-digit multiplication, perimeter, area and equivalent fractions. Grade 5 covers fraction and decimal operations, order of operations and volume. Grade 6 covers unit rates, percents, factors and multiples, the mean, expressions and integers. Grade 7 covers two-step equations, proportions, percent change, integer multiplication and the distributive property. Grade 8 covers slope, equations with variables on both sides, square roots, the Pythagorean theorem and scientific notation. Algebra 1 covers factoring, function notation, slope-intercept form and systems of equations.