Rational Numbers and Square Roots

Strand: Number
Outcomes: 5, 6 and 7

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 Word Document

B. Applied Learning

Provide opportunities for students to use the knowledge they have gained about rational numbers, perfect squares and square roots and notice whether or not this knowledge transfers.

Activity 1: Apply knowledge of rational numbers and order of operations in finding the volume and surface area of right prisms and composite shapes.

Activity 2: Given the surface of right prisms, apply knowledge of square roots to determine a missing dimension.

Activity 3: Given a set of data on daily maximum or minimum temperatures, apply knowledge of rational numbers and order of operations to find the average daily temperature.

Activity 4: Apply knowledge of rational numbers, order of operations, squares and square roots when evaluating algebraic expressions.

Activity 5: Apply knowledge of rational numbers, order of operations, squares and square roots when substituting into the formula, such as converting between temperature scales.