formative assessment

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to understand and use directed numbers in context. It is intended to help identify and aid students who have difficulties in ordering, comparing, adding, and subtracting positive and negative integers. Particular...

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

• Form and solve linear equations involving factorizing and using the distributive law.

In particular, this unit aims to help you identify and assist students who have difficulties in:

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

• Solve simple problems involving ratio and direct proportion.
• Choose an appropriate sampling method.
• Collect discrete data and record them using a frequency table.

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to model a real-world situation and compare and critique sample models. In particular this lesson aims to identify and help students who have difficulty recognizing and using proportional relationships.

This lesson unit is intended to help students judge the accuracy of two different approximations to a particular linear relationship. Students will compare two linear functions as approximations to the relationship between Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature and consider under what circumstances...

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

• Interpret a situation and represent the variables mathematically.
• Select appropriate mathematical methods to use and communicate their reasoning clearly.
• Explore the effects on a
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to interpret percent increase and decrease and in particular, to identify and help students who have the following difficulties:

• Translating between percents, decimals, and fractions.
• Representing
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This lesson unit is intended to help students to apply their knowledge of the relationship between the radius and the area of a circle. In particular, students will:

• Sketch and construct loci involving arcs of circles.
• Calculate the area of a circle, given its radius.
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This lesson unit addresses common misconceptions relating to the probability of simple and compound events. The lesson will help you assess how well students understand concepts of:

• Equally likely events.
• Randomness.
• Sample size.

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

• Model a situation.
• Make sensible, realistic assumptions and estimates.
  • Use assumptions and estimates to create a chain of reasoning, in order to solve a practical problem.

This lesson unit is intended to help assess how well students are able to interpret and use scale drawings to plan a garden layout. This involves using proportional reasoning and metric units.

This lesson unit is intended to help students to:

• Understand the connection between relative frequency and probability.
• Gain experience of designing and carrying out a probability experiment.
• Calculate a theoretical probability for a practical scenario.

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

• Recognize and use common 2D representations of 3D objects.
• Identify and use the appropriate formula for finding the circumference of a circle.

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how students reason about geometry, and in particular, how well they are able to:

• Recall and apply triangle properties.
• Sketch and construct triangles with given conditions.
• Determine whether a set of given conditions
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

• Name and classify quadrilaterals according to their properties.
• Identify the minimal information required to define a quadrilateral.
• Sketch quadrilaterals with given conditions.

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess whether students recognize relationships of direct proportion and how well they solve problems that involve proportional reasoning. In particular, it is intended to help you identify those students who:

• Use inappropriate additive
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This lesson unit is intended to help students to make meaningful comparisons between sets of data. In particular, students will develop their abilities in the following areas:

• Selecting appropriate measures of center and variability in order to summarize the important features of a
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess whether students are able to:

• Identify when two quantities vary in direct proportion to each other.
• Distinguish between direct proportion and other functional relationships.
• Solve proportionality problems using
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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 support you in identifying and helping students who have the following difficulties:

• Solving problems relating to using the measures of the
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This unit is designed to help students to:

• Confront and overcome common probability misconceptions.
• Count equally likely outcomes using diagrams.
• Discuss relationships between theoretical probabilities, observed outcomes, and sample sizes.
• Calculate
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