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Addition and Subtraction Facts to 18

Strand: Number
Outcome: 10

Step 4: Assess Student Learning

Guiding Questions

• Look back at what you determined as acceptable evidence in Step 2.
• What are the most appropriate methods and activities for assessing student learning?
• How will I align my assessment strategies with my teaching strategies?

Sample Assessment Tasks

In addition to ongoing assessment throughout the lessons, consider the following sample activities to evaluate students' learning at key milestones. Suggestions are given for assessing all students as a class or in groups, individual students in need of further evaluation and individual or groups of students in a variety of contexts.

A. Whole Class/Group Assessment

Examples of Whole Class/Group Assessment  

B. One-on-One Assessment

See Sample Structured Interview: Assessing Prior Knowledge and Skills  

C. Applied Learning

Provide opportunities for students to use addition and subtraction in practical situations and observe whether or not the strategies transfer. For example, ask the students to figure out how many days they have left to finish their boat project, if there are 8 school days left in this month of January and 9 before Family Day in February?

Does the student explain that you could double eight and add one or alternatively double nine and subtract one?

In parent–teacher–student conferences, ask parents if students use these strategies when doing calculations at home.

If you have student-led conferences, have the students show parents how they can match a list of strategies with problems or equations that have numbers suited to these strategies. Students can tell their parents their preferred strategies and solve the problems or equation using them.

Does the student explain the strategies clearly to their parents?

Related Resources

• Assessment in the Mathematics