Unit Five: Building Assessment into Teaching and Learning

This unit explores outcomes-based assessment of mathematics in terms of five main questions – Why assess? (the purposes of assessment); What to assess? (achievement of outcomes, but also understanding, reasoning and problem-solving ability); How to assess? (methods, tools and techniques); How to interpret the results of assessment? (the importance of criteria and rubrics for outcomes-based assessment) ; and How to report on assessment? (developing meaningful report cards).


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Solutions Unit Five Reading

The solutions unit consists of the following:

  • General points for discussion relating to the teaching of the mathematical content in the activities.
  • Step-by-step mathematical solutions to the activities.
  • Annotations to the solutions to assist teachers in their understanding the maths as well as teaching issues relating to the mathematical content represented in the activities.
  • Suggestions of links to alternative activities for the teaching of the mathematical content represented in the activities.

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