Assessing Math Concepts: More/Less Trains
Assessing Math Concepts: More/Less Trains by Kathy Richardson, published by Mathematical Perspectives in May 2003, is a resource designed for educators focusing on essential mathematical concepts. This edition, comprising 62 pages, provides a structured approach to assessing children’s understanding of comparative quantities, specifically through the lens of “more” and “less.” The book aims to enhance teachers’ awareness of critical learning steps and supports instructional decision-making.
Readers will find a comprehensive guide that includes background information for administering assessment tasks, instructions for classroom observations, and strategies for organizing assessment data. The content emphasizes practical application, offering reproducible black line masters for classroom activities. This resource is particularly valuable for teachers seeking to evaluate children’s ability to compare groups and understand numerical differences in various contexts.
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Assessing Math Concepts is a nine part series of assessments that focus on core concepts that must be in place if children are to understand and be successful in mathematics. The information that is gathered and organized helps the teachers awareness of the important steps in the learning process and provides information for instructional decision making.
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.
“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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