Assessment

    Assessment is essential in the classroom. Although summative assessment is increasingly important, it will be important to have some solid formative assessments in the classroom. I have provided a sample fractions exam along with a rubric that was created by students at the University of Nebraska Omaha.

 First, here is a free online resource for problem solving assessments.
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREE-Math-Problem-Solving-Assessment-Pack
There is also an assessment rubric for problem solving.
http://pinterest.com/pin/234539093065487780/

Part -to- Whole Relations Test:

Operations:

1.     BEGINNER:  answer:  1

1/2   + 1/2

2.     BEGINNER:  answer: 1/4
7/8 – 5/8

3.     MEDUIM: answer: 5/12
2/3 – 3/8
4.     MEDUIM: answer: 3/8
 3/4  X  3/6
5.     HARD: answer: 8 6/13
11/13 ÷ 1/10

6.     HARD:  answer: 8/9
4/9 ÷ 1/2


7.     ADVANCED: answer: 1 23/60
4/5 + 7/9 X ¾

 
Fraction Word Problems

Order of size

1.    Jenny had a pizza that was divided into 8 equal slices, she ate three of them. Danny has a pizza that is the same size but his is divided into four equal slices, he ate three slices of his pizza. Who ate more? Answer: Danny

 

2.    Jeremy bakes two pans of brownies that are the same size. One pan has nuts in it but the other does not. He cuts the pan with nuts into 8 equal pieces; he cuts the pan without nuts into 16 equal pieces. His friends eat two brownies with nuts and three brownies without nuts. Which pan has more brownies left? Answer: without nuts

 

3.    Four divers are in a competition. Their scores are 8.3, 7.45, 7.7 and 8.65. Write the scores in order from greatest to least? Answer: 8.65, 8.3, 7.7, 7.45

 

Operations

1.    Maria worked 7 12 hours on Friday, 8 12 hours on Saturday and 10 12 hours on Sunday. How many hours did she work all weekend? Answer: 26 ½ hours

 

2.    Marias check was $180.00. She plans on putting 14 of this amount in the bank. How much money will she put in the bank? Answer: $45

 

3.    A first grade class took a poll to find out their favorite ice cream. ¼ chose chocolate, ¼ chose vanilla, and ½ strawberries. Two kids are lactose intolerant and can’t eat ice cream. If there are 22 kids in the class, how many kids liked each flavor? Answer: 5 like vanilla, 5 like chocolate, and 10 like strawberries, and 2 can’t have ice cream.

 

Conversions

1.    Ian swam two free style laps, in forty-three and thirty-two hundredths seconds. Write his time as a decimal. Answer: .43 and .32

 
2.    Lynn lives six and three-fourth miles from the YMCA. Write the distance as a decimal. Answer: 1.5, .75


3.    One Canadian dollar is valued as .96 of a US dollar. One Canadian dollar is valued at what fraction of a US dollar. Answer: 24/25 of a US dollar

Renaming
Put the following numbers in order form least to greatest
1)      Easy –  2/3, 3, ¼, 0, ½     answer: ¼, ½, 2/3, 0, 3
2)      Easy – ½, 25%, 0.1, 1       answer: 0.1, 25%, ½, 1
3)      Medium – 3/7, .55, 7/2, 46%, 1 ½    answer: 3/7, 46%, .55, 1 ½, 7/2
4)      Medium – - ½ , ½, 49%, -.95, 3/1      answer: -½, -.95, 49%, ½, 3/1 
Give the following as fractions, put them in simplest form, and then put the numbers in order from least to greatest.
5)      Hard –  0.92, 0.8, 1.6, 34%, 0.16 answer: 17/50, 4/25, 23/25, 4/5, 1 3/50
6)      Hard – 0.3, 0.55, 5%, 84%, 1.3 answer: 1/20, 1/3, 21/25, 5/9, 1 1/3
7)      Advanced –
a.       Give the following as fractions:
                                                               i.      63%, 0.32, 97%, 0.05, 4%, 0.09 answer: 1/20, 1/25, 9/100, 8/25, 63/100, 97/100

b.      Put the above fractions in simplest form
c.       Put those numbers in order from least to greatest
d.      Indicate the third largest number answer: 8/25 or .32


Conversions
Middle-table 2-conversions


2 easy
1. convert fraction to percent                     ½  ->  _____%                   answer: 50%
2. convert fraction to decimal                     ¼  ->  __.___                      answer: 0.25

2 medium
3. Convert improper fraction to proper fraction                 30/9  ->  ________                         answer: 3  3/9
4. Convert proper fraction to improper fraction 2  7/13  ->  ________                     answer: 33/13


2 hard
5. Convert mixed number to a decimal   4  2/9  ->  ___._____                      answer: 4.222
6. Convert decimal to a fraction                 5.375  ->  ________                        answer: 5  3/8


1 advanced
7. Convert improper fraction to a percent             45/7  ->  ________%                      answer: 643%

Vocabulary

A)     A decimal that can be written as a fraction                               __F__ Common Multiples
with a denominator of 10,100, 1,000, …

B)      The least common multiple of a set of denominators.            __J__  Greatest Common Factor

C)      The least number other than 0 that is a                                     __B__  Least Common Denominator
multiple of two or more whole numbers.

D)     A decimal such as 0.888888888…                                                __C__  Least Common Multiple

E)      A fraction whose value is greater than 1.                                  __D__   Repeating Decimal   

F)      Multiples that are shared by two or more numbers.              __H__   Simplest Form

G)     The product of the number and any whole number.              __A___ Terminating Decimal

H)     The form of a fraction when the GCF of the numerator         __K___ Mixed Number

and the denominator is 1.

I)        A number that divides into a whole number with a                __I__  Factor
remainder of zero

J)       This number is used to divide out of a fraction to get the      __E__ Improper Fraction
fraction into simplest terms.

K)    The sum of a whole number and a fraction


1.    Explain how LCM (Least Common Multiple) and GCF (Greatest Common Factor) differ from one another. Show your knowledge by using some of the vocabulary words from this unit.

2.    There was 1/3 of a pizza left, someone decided to put back their piece of pizza which was 1/6 of the original pizza. How much pizza is now left?  What must we find first in order to solve this problem? _______________________________

3.      When we see the fractions 6/8 and 54/72, we know that these fractions are called? ___________________

Rubric:


Fractions

1

2

3

4

5
Total
Operation
Did not show understanding of the process for completion of fractions
Showed minimal understanding of the process for completion of fractions
Showed understanding of the process for completion of fraction with numerous errors (ie. Errors in process such as + - X ÷)
Correctly + - X ÷ fractions with minimal errors and with majority understanding of the process for completion.
Correctly + - X ÷ fraction with complete understanding of the process for completion (ie. Same denominator, order of operations, etc..)

Application
(Word problems)
Did not show understanding of the process to complete the word problem
Showed minimal understanding of the process to complete
the word problem
Showed understanding of the process to complete the word problem with numerous errors. (use of wrong numbers or miss
of numbers)
Showed understanding of
 the process to complete the word problem with minimal errors.
Showed complete understanding of the process to complete the word problem with no errors.

Vocabulary
Did not show understanding of the vocabulary and it’s uses
Showed minimal understanding of the vocabulary and it’s uses
Showed understanding of the vocabulary  
and it’s uses with numerous errors
Showed understanding of the Vocabulary and it’s uses with minimal errors.
 
Showed complete understanding of the vocabulary and it’s uses.




Fractions
1
2
3
4
5
Total
Conversion
Did not show understanding
 of the process for completion of conversions
Showed minimal understanding of the process for completion of conversions
Showed understanding of the process for completion of conversions with numerous errors
Showed understanding of the process for completion of conversions with minimal errors.
Showed understanding of the process for completion of conversions with no errors.

Renaming
(1/2 = .5 or 50% of 4/8)
Did not show understanding
of the process for renaming of fractions
Showed minimal understanding of the process for renaming of fractions
Showed understanding of the process for renaming of fractions with numerous errors
Showed understanding of the process for renaming of fractions with minimal errors
Showed understanding of the process for renaming of fractions with no errors.

Ordering Fractions
( ½ ¼ 1/3 in order largest to smallest ½ 1/3 ¼ )
Did not show understanding of the process for ordering fractions.
Showed minimal understanding of the process for ordering
fractions
Showed understanding of the process for ordering
fractions with numerous errors
Showed understanding of the process for ordering fractions with minimal errors
Showed understanding of the process for ordering fractions with no errors.
 
 
 


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