Both practical and inspirational, the Classroom Assessment for School Mathematics, K-12 Series of handbooks and casebooks foster insights into what students know, what they can do, and how they think mathematically. This valuable collection of examples, reflections, explanations, and tips explores the role of assessment in reshaping mathematics teaching and learning in the middle grades. This book not only offers advice about changing practices, selecting and developing tools, implementing a system, and using results, but also presents twenty samples of assessment tasks developed by teachers, all in an easily reproducible format.

Mathematics Assessment: A Practical Handbook for Grades 6-8 (Classroom Assessment for School Mathematics K-12)

Science & Math

Natl. Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Mathematics

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

This volume is intended to supply teachers with sample assessment items that produce an accurate picture of their students thinking, to guide teachers instructional decisions, and to serve as models for creating original assessment items. The items are selected or modified from state, national and international assessments; textbooks; private collections of mathematics educators, and originally written problems. The types of items include multiple choice, short response and extended response. All items either require students to explain their answers or ask comparative questions among answer choices. Some items are scaffolded so that all students have access to them; only a few items require the use of a calculator. Selected samples of student work either exemplify a correct response or typify certain categories of student errors. Winner of a 2006 APEX Award for Publication Excellence

Mathematics Assessment Sampler, Grades 9-12 (Mathematics Assessment Samplers)

Education & Teaching

Betty Travis

Schools & Teaching

This collection of sample assessment items contains items compiled from many sources, including state and provincial assessments, sorted into the strands of number and operations, algebra, geometry, measurement and data analysis and probability. Because students are assessed on standardized tests with multiple-choice items, the writing team chose samples of such items as well as explanations for those problems designed to give students opportunities to demonstrate their skills and understanding. Teacher notes to suggest ideas for making multiple-choice items more meaningful, and a variety of rubrics, are also included. In addition, the professional development chapter is designed to help in-service and preservice teachers understand and use levels of complexity for particular problems, use and adapt multiple-choice items, use assessment tasks as an in-service topic, employ scoring rubrics, use technology in assessment, and design their own assessment items.

Mathematics Assessment Sampler, Grades 6-8 (Mathematics Assessment Samplers)

John Burrill

What better way to capture your students' imagination and bring it into the world of mathematics than cartoons? Cartoon Corner provides the resources to do just that, with cartoons collected and adapted from the popular "Cartoon Corner" in Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, adding notes from teachers who field-tested the questions and solutions with their students. The activities are organized by topic, and the opening chapter includes suggestions on the many ways to integrate cartoons into your classroom.

Cartoon Corner: Humor-Based Mathematics Activities

Table of Contents Preface Far from a run-of-the-mill readings book, Getting into the Mathematics Conversation is an outstanding compendium of the very best of the NCTM school journals' offerings on the broad subject of communication in the mathematics classroom. It spans all grade levels and targets all communication forms-listening and speaking, reading, writing, and multiple forms-that a teacher might wish to develop in students. Comprehensive in scope, it is organized around nine topics: the need for conversation, the nature of mathematics, sociocultural perspectives, classroom management, curriculum, learning context, learning environment, pedagogy, and assessment The handy four-color global matrix inserts offer at-a-glance identification of the articles that target a teacher's needs by three dimensions-grade level, topic, and communication form-to instantly guide the reader to the desired content. This valuable resource should be on every mathematics teacher's bookshelf!

Getting Into the Mathematics Conversation: Valuing Communication in Mathematics Classrooms Readings from NCTM's School-Based Journals

Portia C. Elliott

Cynthia Garnett

More than 100 mathematics teachers and teacher educators recommended their all-time favorite articles for this collection. The result is an excellent professional development resource for educators at the prekindergarten-grade 8 levels. These wide-ranging articles are presented in an easy-to-use, readable format that can be used to spark conversations about improving practice and student learning. Innovative ways to use the articles to enhance professional development are described, and practical strategies that teachers can use in their classrooms are suggested. The timely topics covered include diversity, discourse, challenging students, and deepening understanding. This valuable collection of users' favorite articles will promote thought-provoking discussion in group settings, and help mathematics educators continue to refine and improve their teaching skills.

Growing Professionally: Readings from NCTM Publications for Grades K-8

Jennifer M. Bay-Williams

Karen Karp

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