| Most people are familiar with the game of bingo. The | | | | The common theme in most educational variants of |
| idea of the game is simple: each player is given a | | | | bingo is a requirement for custom bingo worksheets. |
| bingo worksheet (or "bingo card" or "bingo board") | | | | This is because the bingo worksheets are printed with |
| containing a grid of squares (each square usually | | | | items chosen by the teacher and specific to the |
| contains a different number), and the goal is to cross | | | | particular subject in question. For example, in a game |
| out numbers as they are called out by the bingo caller, | | | | of math bingo, the worksheets might be printed with |
| hopefully being the first to achieve a winning pattern or | | | | numbers that are the answers to math problems |
| line (what is considered a winning pattern may vary | | | | called out by the teacher, in a game of foreign |
| depending on the rules being used). | | | | language bingo, the bingo worksheets might be printed |
| One thing that you may not know however is that | | | | out with French or Spanish words (the teacher makes |
| there are many variations on the basic game of bingo, | | | | the bingo calls in English), and so on. You might assume |
| and these have been applied for a variety of | | | | that creating custom bingo cards for every student in |
| educational purposes. Bingo is in fact an excellent tool | | | | a class is a lot of time-consuming preparation work for |
| that can be used to help teaching reading, vocabulary, | | | | teachers, but you would be wrong - it's actually very |
| math, science and many other K-12 subjects, and also | | | | easy to print custom bingo cards with the help from a |
| is of use in teaching English as Second Language | | | | computer and some bingo worksheets generator |
| ("ESL"). | | | | software. |