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Formal Assessment
Embedded in the Unit
Problems Use students’ work from the Problems
Choose the assessment materials that are
appropriate for your students.
to check student understanding.
ACE exercises Use ACE exercises for homework
Assessment
For Use
After
Focus
Student
Work
assignments to assess student understanding.
Check Up 1
Invest. 1
Skills
Individual
Rich problems
Pair
Skills
Individual
Mathematical Reflections Have students
Partner Quiz Invest. 2
summarize their learning at the end of each
Investigation.
Check Up 2
Looking Back and Looking Ahead At the end of
the unit, use the first two sections to allow
students to show what they know about the unit.
Additional Resources
Teacher’s Guide Use the Check for
Understanding feature of some Summaries and
the probing questions that appear in the Launch,
Explore, or Summarize sections of all
Investigations to check student understanding.
Self Assessment
Notebook Check Students use this tool to organize
and check their notebooks before giving them to
their teacher. Located in Assessment Resources.
Self Assessment At the end of the unit, students
reflect on and provide examples of what they
learned. Located in Assessment Resources.
Unit Test
Invest. 3
INTRODUCTION
Ongoing Informal Assessment
The Unit Skills, rich problems Individual
Unit Project The Unit
Rich problems
Individual
or Group
Additional Resources
Multiple-Choice Items Use these items for home-
work, review, a quiz, or add them to the Unit Test.
Question Bank Choose from these questions for
homework, review, or replacements for Quiz,
Check Up, or Unit Test questions.
Additional Practice Choose practice exercises for
each investigation for homework, review, or
formal assessments.
ExamView CD-ROM Create practice sheets,
review quizzes, and tests with this dynamic software.
Give online tests and receive student progress
reports. (All test items are also available in Spanish.)
Spanish Assessment Resources
Includes Partner Quizzes, Check Ups, Unit Test,
Multiple-Choice Items, Question Bank, Notebook
Check, and Self-Assessment. Plus, the ExamView
CD-ROM has all test items in Spanish.
Correlation to Standardized Tests
Terra Nova
Investigation
NAEP
1 Evaluating Games of Chance
D4a, D4c, D4d
CAT6 CTBS
✔
ITBS SAT10
✔
✔
2 Analyzing Situations Using an
Area Model
D4e, D4f
✔
✔
3 Expected Value
D4d, D4h
✔
✔
4 Binomial Outcomes
D4c, D4f
✔
✔
NAEP National Assessment
of Educational Progress
CAT6/Terra Nova California Achievement Test, 6th Ed.
CTBS/Terra Nova Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills
Local Test
ITBS Iowa Test of Basic Skills, Form M
SAT10 Stanford Achievement Test, 10th Ed.
Unit Introduction
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