Uncovering student thinking in mathematics, grades 6-12 : 30 formative assessment probes for the secondary classroom /: 30 formative assessment probes for the secondary classroom. ([2009])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Cheryl M. Rose, Carolyn B. Arline ; foreword by Johnny W. Lott.
• Authors: Rose, Cheryl M; Arline, Carolyn
• Contents: Foreword by Johnny W. Lott; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; 1. Mathematics Assessment Probes; Introduction; What Types of Understandings and Misunderstandings Does a Mathematics Assessment Probe Uncover?; How Were the Mathematics Assessment Probes Developed?; What Is the Structure of a Mathematics Assessment Probe?; What Additional Information Is Provided With Each Mathematics Assessment Probe?; What Mathematics Assessment Probes Are Included in the Book?; 2. Instructional Implications; Differentiating Instruction; Assessing Points of Entry; Analyzing Trends in Student Thinking; Giving Student Interviews; Promoting Student-to-Student Dialogue; Developing Vocabulary; Allowing for Individual Think Time; Improving Students' Process Skills; Assessing Effectiveness of Instructional Activities; Moving Beyond the Individual Classroom; Summary; 3. Number and Operations Assessment Probes; Probe 1: What Is the Value of the Digit?; Teachers' Notes: What Is the Value of the Digit?; Probe 1a: What Is the Value of the Digit? Variation; Probe 2: What Is the Meaning of 2/3?; Teachers' Notes: What Is the Meaning of 2/3?; Probe 2a: What Is the Meaning of 2/3? Variation; Probe 3: Is It Equivalent?; Teachers' Notes: Is It Equivalent?; Probe 3a: Is It Equivalent? Variation; Probe 4: What's Your Estimate?; Teachers' Notes: What's Your Estimate?; Probe 5: Is It an Estimate?; Teachers' Notes: Is It an Estimate?; Probe 6: Is It Simplified?; Teachers' Notes: Is It Simplified?; Probe 6a: Is It Simplified? Algebraic Variation; Probe 7: Where Is a Million?; Teachers' Notes: Where Is a Million?; Probe 8: How Low Can You Go?; Teachers’ Notes: How Low Can You Go?; Probe 8a: How Low Can You Go? Variation; Probe 9: What’s Your Addition Strategy?; Teachers’ Notes: What’s Your Addition Strategy?; Probe 9a: What’s Your Addition Strategy? Decimals Variation; Probe 9b: What’s Your Addition Strategy? Fractions Variation; Probe 10: What’s Your Subtraction Strategy?; Teachers’ Notes: What’s Your Subtraction Strategy?; Probe 10a: What’s Your Subtraction Strategy? Decimals Variation; Probe 10b: What’s Your Subtraction Strategy? Fractions Variation; Probe 11: What’s Your Multiplication Strategy?; Teachers’ Notes: What’s Your Multiplication Strategy?; Probe 11a: What’s Your Multiplication Strategy? Decimals Variation; Probe 12: What’s Your Division Strategy?; Teachers’ Notes: What’s Your Division Strategy?; Probe 12a: What’s Your Division Strategy? Decimals Variation; 4. Geometry, Measurement, and Data Assessment Probes; Probe 1: What’s the Measure?; Teachers’ Notes: What’s the Measure?; Probe 1a: What’s the Measure? Variation; Probe 2: Are Area and Perimeter Related?; Teachers’ Notes: Are Area and Perimeter Related?; Probe 3: What’s the Area?; Teachers’ Notes: What’s the Area?; Probe 4: What’s the Capacity?; Teachers’ Notes: What’s the Capacity?; Probe 5: Is It Transformed?; Teachers’ Notes: Is It Transformed?; Probe 6: Are They Similar?; Teachers’ Notes: Are They Similar?; Probe 7: What Do You Mean?; Teachers’ Notes: What Do You Mean?; Probe 7a: What Do You Mean? Variation; Probe 8: Name of the Graph?; Teachers’ Notes: Name of the Graph?; Probe 9: Graph Construction?; Teachers’ Notes: Graph Construction?; 5. Algebra and Data Assessment Probes; Probe 1: Equal or Not Equal?; Teachers’ Notes: Equal or Not Equal?; Probe 2: Is It the Same as a+b?; Teachers’ Notes: Is It the Same as a+b?; Probe 3: M & N’s?; Teachers’ Notes: M & N’s?; Probe 4: What’s the Substitute?; Teachers’ Notes: What’s the Substitute?; Probe 5: Is It True?; Teachers’ Notes: Is It True?; Probe 6: Solving Equations?; Teachers’ Notes: Solving Equations?; Probe 7: Correct Representation of the Inequality?; Teachers’ Notes: Correct Representation of the Inequality?; Probe 8: Is It a Variable?; Teachers’ Notes: Is It a Variable?; Probe 9: Binomial Expansion?; Teachers’ Notes: Binomial Expansion?; Probe 10: Is It Quadratic?; Teachers’ Notes: Is It Quadratic?; Resource A: Note Template for QUEST Cycle; References; Index;
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : Corwin
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 231 pages)
• Subjects: 510.712; Mathematical ability -- Testing; Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Evaluation; Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Middle school) -- Evaluation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452207964; 1452207968
• Related ISBNs: 9781412963770; 9781412963763
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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