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math assessment
By Julianne

Along with Cathy-Dee's great ideas, I use a few other simple tests.

Using unifix cubes:
Place 1,2,3,4,or 5 cubes on the table. Ask the student to quickly tell you how many. This shows if they can easily identify small
amounts.
Have students count 4, 8, 12 and 16 cubes. Shows if they have one to one counting skills.
Set out 6 cubes. Ask the child to count them and tell you how many. Now rearrange the cubes. Ask them how many now. Can show if they understand conservation of numbers.
Have 3 prepared dishes, one with 10 counters, one with 50 counters and one with 100 counters. Ask students

to estimate how many counters they think are in each dish.

Ask the child to count by 2's, 5's and 10's as far as they can.

This baseline information is good to use when assessing how your students have progressed. Each evaluation takes me about 15 minutes. I give them three times a year - fall, winter and spring to see where we still need to work.