I think it is really important for math teachers to include performance based methods of assessment in their math class in order to show students a different side of math than what I think many people are used to. Using these types of assessment techniques are often great for showing students how math can relate to the real world and also allows them to have some fun when using math.<\/p>\n
While on my short practicum, I did an activity with my Math 8 class where they were given a menu from a restaurant that I had created and were asked to choose one appetizer, one entree, and one dessert and then calculate the tax and tip on the items as a part of their assessment for the calculating percents unit. My SA does a similar activity with his classes where he brings in Best Buy flyers and the students are given a certain amount of money to spend but they must add PST and GST into their calculations. Given more time, I think that a project like this could be further expanded to have the students have to calculate what a restaurant should charge for each dish if they were given the cost of the ingredients and told that they should make a certain percent profit for each dish.<\/p>\n
Activities like these are often fun and help students remember the concepts and procedures a lot better by helping to cement them in their minds. However, I think that it is important to recognize that certain types of questions on a typically formatted math test can also help to evaluate students’ understandings of concepts at a deeper level. When many people think of math, and the textbook alludes to this as well, they think of the rigid, black or white, one answer only type of question that have frequented math tests and texts. I believe that it is important for teachers to include open ended questions that require students to think at a deeper level and show a complex understanding of concepts in their assessments in order to properly assess learning. This is an idea that I think is becoming very popular in math classes nowadays and I think can help evaluate students in the same way as the performance based assessments because they require a very similar form of thinking.<\/p>\n
As a teacher, I am to use plenty of performance based assessments and open ended questioning to try to help my students to the greatest of my ability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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