CAT 4

The assessment for CAT 4 begins today.  For some of the students new to this assessment, I modeled for them how you begin to fill in the answer form.

The CAT 4 is pretty long and the students will be given ample time to complete it.


Yesterday I had a question in the morning for the students that related to some work we have been doing in class.  I try to make connections between subjects or topics to help reinforce some key ideas or concepts.  This one had to do with multiples and the skill of understanding what they are.  We used the Hundred chart to show how many multiples of 2, 3, 4, and 5 there are.  Here is Junior's example:

He used a legend with different colours

We used Megan's chart to look at a few of the patterns on the chart:

The shading exercise is another way to reinforce the multiplication tables and to prepare for some of the exercise we will be doing in class.

Here is the question I was talking about:

 

Here are three sample answers.  

One has the correct answer with the process/steps missing and the other answer explains itself a little more with supporting details.  There were many other students in the class who got this correct, and had another approach, but I selected this one.

Correct, but missing s some supporting details

Junior explained to me that he subtracted 25 from 33 to figure out his answer of 8

The answer I calculated hints at some of the work we will be doing involving Common Multiple.

 The IEP input page will be sent home today seeking your input on the Strengths and area of Needs for your learner in Room 52.  This is what it looks like: