formative assessment

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

• Interpret a situation and represent the constraints and variables mathematically.
• Select appropriate mathematical methods to use.
• Make sensible estimates and assumptions.
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

• Choose appropriate mathematics to solve a non-routine problem.
• Generate useful data by systematically controlling variables.
• Develop experimental and analytical models of a physical
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

• Interpret a situation and represent the constraints and variables mathematically.
• Select appropriate mathematical methods to use.
• Explore the effects of systematically varying the
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

• Interpret data and evaluate statistical summaries.
• Critique someone else’s interpretations of data and evaluations of statistical summaries.

The lesson also introduces students to the...

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to translate between words, symbols, tables, and area representations of algebraic expressions. It will help you to identify and support students who have difficulty:

• Recognizing the order of algebraic
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to use geometric properties to solve problems. In particular, it will help you identify and help students who have difficulty:

• Decomposing complex shapes into simpler ones in order to solve a problem.
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to manipulate and calculate with polynomials. In particular, it aims to identify and help students who have difficulties in:

• Switching between visual and algebraic representations of polynomial expressions.
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to identify linear and quadratic relationships in a realistic context: the number of tiles of different types needed for a range of square tabletops. In particular, this unit aims to identify and help students who have...

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students reason about the properties of rational and irrational numbers. In particular, it aims to help you identify and assist students who have difficulty:

• Finding irrational and rational numbers to exemplify general
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

• Use the properties of exponents, including rational exponents and manipulate algebraic statements involving radicals.
• Discriminate between equations and identities.

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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students can:

• Understand the concepts of length and area.
• Use the concept of area in proving why two areas are or are not equal.
• Construct their own examples and counterexamples to help justify or refute
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to solve problems involving area and volume, and in particular, to help you identify and assist students who have difficulties with:

• Computing perimeters, areas, and volumes using formulas.
• Finding
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

• Work with concepts of congruency and similarity, including identifying corresponding sides and corresponding angles within and between triangles.
• Identify and understand the significance of a
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students understand the notion of positive correlation. In particular this unit aims to identify and help students who have difficulty in:

• Understanding correlation as the degree of fit between two variables.
• Making a
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to identify and use geometrical knowledge to solve a problem. In particular, it aims to identify and help students who have difficulty in:

• Making a mathematical model of a geometrical situation.
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to distinguish between rational and irrational numbers. In particular, it aims to help you identify and assist students who have difficulties in:

• Classifying numbers as rational or irrational.
• Moving
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students understand the relationship between the slopes of parallel and perpendicular lines and in particular, to help identify students who find it difficult to:

• Find, from their equations, lines that are parallel and
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students solve problems involving measurement and in particular, to identify and help students who have difficulty:

• Computing measurements using formulas.
• Decomposing compound shapes into simpler ones.
• Using
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to solve problems involving area and arc length of a sector of a circle using radians. It assumes familiarity with radians and should not be treated as an introduction to the topic. This lesson is intended to help you...

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to create and solve linear and non-linear equations. In particular, the lesson will help identify and help students who have the following difficulties:

• Solving equations where the unknown appears once or more
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