This year I have decided to take a twist on my problem of the day activity. Every period I give students their own problem of the day for when they walk into my classroom. Student answer the problem that is either related to a prerequisite skill needed for the day's lesson, or it has to do with reviewing the problem from yesterday. As students are turning them in, I am slowly making small groups based on right, wrong, or other (small mistakes). I then can reteach in small groups as other students are working on iPads (ixl or khan). 
Last year I noticed most students would be intrinsically motivated to get the problem of the day correct. However, I noticed there were a few students in one period who didn't care so much about putting their best effort towards solving this problem. I was able to talk with a few teachers about ways to help those students find a purpose for the problem each day, and we decided to start using the correct slips as a raffle ticket. Every month I have decided to pull a ticket from my raffle bin for some type of reward. One of the teachers I worked with made these little blue sheets of paper for our students to use for the problem, and I thought it added a nice tough for our raffle.
So far students seem to be excited about it, but I will let you know exactly how this works out once we have a raffle.
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