New Math Quick Assessments for Grades 3–12 Winter 2018

Ryan Ingram

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Innovating Instruction

2 min readNov 30, 2018

Visual Strategies to Make Conceptual Connections

This latest round of Quick Assessments that our team has published has all of the elements that make them great:

Questions at all depth of knowledge levels (DOK 1–3)
Pre and post assessments aligned to individual standards
Engaging tasks
Answer keys with model student responses and rubrics

We have focused our attention on diversifying the means of representation of mathematics content. We’ve accomplished this by including engaging visual strategies to help students make conceptual connections that, when internalized, are transferable in various contexts.

Example of DOK 1 task with visual model and answer key from 7th grade Quick Assessment 7.SP.B.3 Assessing Degree of Overlap Given Two Data Distributions

The practice problems included in these Quick Assessments are organized by DOK levels and the visual models are scaffolded to the level of rigor of the tasks and problems on post-assessments.

Example of 3 part DOK 3 practice task from 7th grade Quick Assessment 7.SP.B.3 Assessing Degree of Overlap Given Two Data Distributions

All of the newly released Math Quick Assessments include DOK 3 level practices problems that require clear justifications that are paired with visual models to show so students can show their work. They also engage students in multi-part tasks which allow teachers to asses student thinking at multiple points within each problem.