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Dynamic Mathematics Assessment incorporates elements of three powerful assessment techniques to determine an individual student's mathematics understanding and skill level for any set of mathematics concepts/skills/strategies of interest. By incorporating elements of Concrete-to-Representational-Abstract (CRA) Assessment, Error Pattern Analysis and Flexible Mathematics Interviews, a dynamic evaluation of a student's mathematical understandings is possible.
Dynamic Mathematics Assessment combines principles of CRA Assessment, Error Pattern Analysis, and the Flexible Mathematics Interview to provide teachers with an in-depth yet instructionally relevant picture of any student's mathematical understandings. CRA Assessment includes evaluating a student's ability to demonstrate his/her understanding of mathematics concepts/skills/strategies at the concrete, representational and abstract levels of understanding. Error Pattern Analysis provides teachers insight into how students approach solving mathematics problems using procedures/algorithms and helps them to pinpoint the use of effective and ineffective procedures and possible mathematical misunderstandings or non-understandings. Flexible Mathematics Interviews allow teachers to gain insight into student's mathematical thinking.
A Dynamic Mathematics Assessment begins by having students respond to a set of prompts or items that reflect targeted mathematics concepts/skills/strategies at the Abstract Level of Understanding. Including at least 5-10 items for each target skill is helpful for ensuring reliability: For example, if a target mathematics skill was "division facts 0-9" then the student might respond to a variety of 10 division facts such as:
When the student does not demonstrate mastery, then the teacher examines the student's responses for error patterns. Error patterns are consistent mistakes made by a student when responding to the same task (e.g., the student consistently either adds or subtracts instead of dividing; student responses reflect random guessing; the student consistently misses facts where the divisor is not "1" or "2."). The teacher notes any error patterns and determines whether the error pattern indicates conceptual or procedural non-understanding. For example, if the student consistently adds or subtracts instead of dividing or if their responses are random guesses, it is likely that the student does not understand the division process (conceptual non-understanding). Then the teacher "interviews" the student about what they did when they solved the target mathematics concept/skill. Several approaches can be taken when conducting a flexible mathematics interview. Whichever approach is used, the primary purpose is to get a picture of the student's mathematical thinking as it relates to the target concept/skill. When completing a flexible mathematics interview, it is important to incorporate use of concrete materials and drawings to determine whether the student possesses either a concrete or representational/semi-concrete level of understanding. Even though the student initially demonstrates difficulty with the concept/skill at the abstract level of understanding, it is possible that they have a "lower" level of understanding (e.g., concrete or representational/semi-concrete). Determining a student's level of understanding (concrete, representational/semi-concrete, abstract) helps the teacher determine at what level of understanding they must start their instruction if they are to effectively move the student to an abstract level of understanding. Additionally, by providing students with concrete materials and/or allowing them to draw pictures provides them a more tangible way to describe their mathematical understandings, thereby providing the teacher a clearer picture of why their student is having difficulty with the target mathematics concept/skill.
By providing an in-depth picture of a student's mathematical understanding of specific mathematics concepts/skills, a dynamic mathematics assessment helps the teacher better determine how to best teach the student. Students with learning problems often have gaps in mathematical understanding that make it difficult for them to achieve success in mathematics as they proceed through grades K-12. Teachers who are able to gain insight into their students' mathematical thinking as well as their conceptual and procedural knowledge related to the particular mathematic concepts/skills they teach will be better equipped to provide them effective mathematics instruction. By planning instruction that is based on a student's level of proficiency, their level of understanding and their mathematical thinking, a teacher can better pinpoint what prerequisite concepts/skills a student needs to develop, what particular non-successful strategies they are using, and whether they have established conceptual and procedural understanding at the concrete, representational/semi-concrete, or abstract levels. Based on this mathematical learning picture, appropriate instructional goals and instructional practices can be developed for a student.
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Although women hold close to half of all jobs in the U.S. economy, they hold less than 25 percent of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) jobs. The Athens Branch is one of 23 AAUW National Tech Savvy sites working to improve those numbers.
The MVAT is divided into five strands. Content from Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II (EOC) is connected within the strands, where appropriate (not all End Of Course mathematics content is included in the MVAT). Below shows the hierarchical structure of the MVAT:
This tool was designed to support Virginia educators in their process of reviewing students' strengths and unfinished learning in terms of algebra readiness. This tool, in conjunction with math performance data provided by VDOE as well as classroom- or school-generated data, can help automate the creation of Student Remediation Plans for individual students by teachers, counselors, administrators or others. These plans can be printed (save as PDF or hard copy) and shared with teachers, tutors, and others designated to work with students to complete unfinished learning in math.
- Variables created in the equation editor are recognised by the question, but then do not appear when the student attempts the questions. This problem needs to be fixed, especially for secondary mathematics.
- To create more dynamic questions, I need to reverse engineer questions so that suitable solutions can be found. For some questions, I need the values of some variables to be formulated to fit with other variables in the question. It would be a lot easier to have Javascript enabled within the Quizzes to make this work more efficiently. Is that even a possibility right now? Is there a nice way to make this work? Alternatively, to the Canvas people reading this, could you please update this as soon as possible into your quizzes, especially where I am teaching students in China online right now from Canada due to the pandemic and thus, heavily depend on such tools for assessments?
RightStart does meet common core standards in the second edition. If parents are wary of common core, they can simply by the first edition of the program instead. This program is recommended for families who have children that struggle with math, are very kinesthetic or hands on, and/or have learning challenges that make math a struggle. It has proven incredibly successful for families to help children find confidence and begin to enjoy math rather than dread it but is definitely more expensive to begin with. Check out their site to learn more!
Horizons math is a bright, workbook-style math program with a spiral approach. It works well for visual learners or families that need something that can be done more independently in an open-and-go fashion. Horizons is a Christian company, however the math is pretty focused on math concepts and could easily be used by secular families as well.
Singapore math curriculum is a blend of both a traditional math approach (textbook and workbook style) with an out-of-the-box strategy. It is based upon the math model in Singapore where students score much higher in math than here in North America. There are three different versions of the program and only the common core version is common core aligned so there are options for families to choose based on their opinions of common core. There is a home instructors handbook (not shown here) that I have heard marvellous things about and really gives extra instruction and insight to the parent in how to use the program more effectively with your child (read a great review about it here).
Life of Fred is a math program that is more commonly used as a supplemental resource rather than a full curriculum (though some families use this alone). It is a secular, story-based math program that is neither spiral or mastery, but instead has funny stories that children love and more word-problem discussion questions to help the children master the concepts. It is a secular option for families that want story based math and is really effective for children who are more or less disinterested in school.
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