FIRST IN MATH BULLETIN NOV 2016
2nd Training Edition, NLCI Education Department
AGENDA FOR NOVEMBER
- WHY FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT?
- WHERE IS MY PRE-ASSESSMENT DATA?
- ANALYZING THE PRE-ASSESSMENT DATA TO DRIVE INSTRUCTION
- INDIVIDUALIZED DATA AND PLP'S
- NEXT STEPS
Reminder: This SMORE goes in order from top to bottom. Scroll to see what is next.
HOW TO USE THIS SMORE
This SMORE is about analyzing the pre-assessment data. The videos are in order. The video camera icon means that there is a screencast to watch.
REMINDER: FIM is being used as a formative assessment for mathematics. The program is the same as last year, but the training is different. Questions? Contact toby.grosswald@nlcinc.com
REVIEW: Must Do's from October
https://www.smore.com/p2t2x-first-in-math-bulletin-oct-2016
- Registration
- Log-in Practice
- Parent letter distribution
- Completion of JTF100 as a pre-assessment
- MIDDLE GRADES 6-8: JTF Integers as a pre-assessment
- download Puffin Academy if working on iPad
- has 4 quadrants for each operation
- data displayed after completion of each
- 12 minutes per operation .
Why, What, How of Formative Assessment
Why?
To improve student achievementWhat?
A process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning to improve students' achievement of intended instructional outcomes.
How?
Formative assessment supplies the evidence students need in order to make any necessary adjustments in how they are trying to learn something.
#1 Finding the Just The Facts 100 (JTF 100) Data
#2 What if my students completed the pre AND post-assessment instead of just the pre-assessment?
#3 What does this data tell me?
#4 How can I address the fluency needs of my students?
DEEP PRACTICE
Deep Practice consists of stopping when an error occurs, practicing that one skill until it is perfected, then continuing. Students learn by repeating, reassessing and "fixing" their skills in the process of learning them, with immediate feedback and error-correction.
Scientific research shows that this type of learning causes myelin, a neural insulation, to grow and thicken around axons, which connect the brain's neurons to each other. Increased myelin makes the information signal that passes through the neural network faster, stronger, and longer lasting. The result is quicker thinking, and better retention.
PLP (Personal Learning Plan) goals for fact fluency might include;
- Concrete example, strategies, number sense
- Number Talks
- Deep practice
LET'S REVIEW
- Guide the teaching of your students based on their data
- PRACTICE GYMS and SKILL SETS are the best practice games for fact fluency.
- Practice GYMS build fact fluency with whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and integers.
- SKILL SETS are a pathway to procedural fluency. Students build equations from single-step addition to multi-step algebra—a gauge of problem-solving skills through procedural fluency.
- There are many other resources in your math program to practice mathematical fluency.
Next Steps
- When the students are not in the gyms or skill sets, please allow them to play any of the games to gain stickers.
- The Goals Index Preview can be found on every FIM page under RESOURCES
- More information can be found by using the TUTORIAL icon on the teacher HOME PAGE
Teachers should help students develop math facts, not by emphasizing facts for the sake of facts or using ‘timed tests’ but by encouraging students to use, work with and explore numbers. As students work on meaningful number activities they will commit math facts to heart at the same time as understanding numbers and math. They will enjoy and learn important mathematics rather than memorize, dread and fear mathematics.