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These pre-assessment strategies from Every Math Learner, Grades 6-12, will help to better prepare your students for an exam.

Learn how to use this Matrix featured in Realizing Rigor to refine strategies and select student actions. (Secondary)

Learn how to use this Matrix featured in Realizing Rigor to refine strategies and select student actions. (Secondary)

This practice activity from The Five Practices in Practice, Elementary, by Margaret “Peg” Smith, Victoria Bill, and Miriam Gamoran Sherin involves thinking about different ways students might solve the task, planning to respond to students using assessing and advancing questions, and preparing to notice key aspects of students’ thinking in the midst of instruction. 

This excerpt from The Five Practices in Practice helps you assess student thinking in ways that take them from where they are now and move them towards the lesson goals.

Join Francis "Skip" Fennell, author of The Formative 5, as he unpacks teacher and classroom-tested mathematics formative assessment techniques that have a big impact on student learning. 

This excerpt from The Five Practices in Practice demonstrates strategies to anticipate student responses in problem solving, including planning to respond to students using assessing and advancing questions, and preparing to notice key aspects of students’ thinking in the midst of instruction.

These two wrap-up strategies from Bringing Math Students into the Formative Assessment Equation feature "reflect-aloud" and "X-marks-the-spot" to help students self-assess. 

This Hinge Question Implementation Tool from The Formative 5 helps you to organize your thoughts around a single hinge question in order to better assess your students' progress and define next steps for their continued learning.