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Assessing Math Concepts
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In primary-grade classrooms, we learn most about how our students think and what they can do when we sit beside them, engage them in conversations, observe their actions, read their reflections, and see their mathematical work. Because of the ages and capabilities of these young students, mathematics assessment should rely more on observation and conversations and less on writing. What students write on paper offers only a glimpse of what they know and think.
Assessing Math Concepts, a continuum of nine assessments that focuses on important core concepts and related “Critical Learning Phases” that must be in place if children are to understand and be successful in mathematics. These assessments help teachers to assess their students and give them the necessary information they need to plan their instruction regardless of what curriculum or program they are using in their classroom. The information teachers get can be used to guide their instruction and identify those students who need extra help or intervention.
It is widely recognized that too many middle and high school students have gaps in their mathematical understandings that interfere with their ability to be successful as they move into algebra and beyond. Even those who have been successful in elementary math are not successful in later years, revealing that the ability to get right answers does not ensure an understanding of the underlying mathematics. If educators are going to prepare students for future success, they must have a greater understanding of the core foundational concepts that determine success or failure in the long run.
This set of nine assessments identifies Critical Learning Phases that are crucial to the understanding of core concepts. The information teachers get about each of their students from these simple and quick assessments provide them with information that is more important to their math instruction than any other assessment they'll use and answers the questions:
"What are the foundational mathematical ideas children need to know?"
"How can teachers know the children are learning these important ideas?"
"What do teachers do if the children are not learning what they need to know?" |
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Assessing Math Concepts
Complete Series • Order All 9
by Kathy Richardson
Grades: K-3 • Item No: 2-1800W
Price: $175.00
Complete set of all 9 Assessments. Each book provides the teacher background information for giving and using the assessment tasks, instructions for doing classroom observations, tips for organizing information and suggestions for instruction. Black line masters are included and can be reproduced for classroom assessment activities.
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Assessing Math Concepts
Assessment Forms (Set of 9)
by Kathy Richardson
Grades: K-3 • Item No: 2-1800FW
Price: $49.50
Assessment forms to accompany Assessing Math Concepts. Set of 9 form packs with fifty forms per pack.
May also be ordered for individual assessments.
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Assessing Math Concepts • Bk 1
Counting Objects
by Kathy Richardson
Grades: K-3 • Item No: 2-180W
Price: $19.95
Counting Objects will assess if children can answer the question "how many?" and count objects with consistency, accuracy, and confidence.
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Assessing Math Concepts • Bk 2
Changing Numbers
by Kathy Richardson
Grades: K-3 • Item No: 2-181W
Price: $19.95
Changing Numbers will assess if children can: change one quantity to another, describe how one number is related to another, know how many to take away or add, determine whether to take away or add to reach another number, and count on or remove extras to change a number.
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Assessing Math Concepts • Bk 3
More/Less Trains
by Kathy Richardson
Grades: K-3 • Item No: 2-182W
Price: $19.95
More/Less Trains will assess if children can: compare two groups and determine which is more and which is less and compare two groups in a variety of settings and determine how many more or how many less one number is than another.
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Assessing Math Concepts • Bk 4
Number Arrangements
by Kathy Richardson
Grades: K-3 • Item No: 2-183W
Price: $19.95
Number Arrangements will assess if children can: recognize the parts of numbers; combine parts of numbers without counting them all; recognize groups of numbers to 5 in a variety of configurations; recognize the smaller parts contained by larger numbers. |
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Assessing Math Concepts • Bk 5
Combination Trains
by Kathy Richardson
Grades: K-3 • Item No: 2-184W
Price: $19.95
Combination Trains will assess if children can: use known combinations and figure out unknown combinations; know the parts of numbers to ten; solve problems to 20; write equations.
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Assessing Math Concepts • Bk 6
Hiding Assessment
by Kathy Richardson
Grades: K-3 • Item No: 2-185W
Price: $19.95
Hiding Assessment will determine if children can recognize the parts of a number to ten, solve subtraction problems, and write subtraction equations, seeing the relationship between composition and decomposition of numbers.
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Assessing Math Concepts • Bk 7
Ten Frames
by Kathy Richardson
Grades: K-3 • Item No: 2-186W
Price: $19.95
Ten Frames will assess if children can combine single digit numbers by reorganizing them into a 10 and leftovers; subtract from numbers up to 20; know 10 plus any number from 1 to 10; describe 10 as a single entity.
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Assessing Math Concepts • Bk 8
Grouping Tens
by Kathy Richardson
Grades: K-3 • Item No: 2-187W
Price: $19.95
Grouping Tens helps determine if children can organize quantities into tens and ones, add and subtract tens without counting, and count groups of tens.
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Assessing Math Concepts • Bk 9
Two Digit Addition and Subtraction
by Kathy Richardson
Grades: K-3 • Item No: 2-188W
Price: $19.95
Two Digit Addition and Subtraction helps determine if children can use what they have learned about single digit operations to add and subtract two digit numbers competently and to establish that they can describe how to solve problems.
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