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reSolve: Assessing reasoning – Year 3 exemplars
This series of two exemplar tasks is designed to provoke students' mathematical reasoning and to assist teachers engage in formative assessment of students' abilities to analyse, generalise and justify. Each exemplar is aimed at Year 3, with adaptability to other years. Students analyse the task situation, form or test conjectures, and explain their thinking to others. Lesson materials include task information with suggested reasoning prompts and further activities, along with multiple annotated work samples illustrating the assessment rubric. These exemplar tasks are part of the special topic 'Assessing Mathematical Reasoning'.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 3
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Assessment tasks Assessment advice
- Strand
- Number
- Topic
- Addition and subtraction
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Numeracy progression
- Additive strategies (P8) Number and place value (P5) Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P3)
- Publisher
- reSolve Maths by Inquiry
- Copyright
- © Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment 2021. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Keywords
- reasoning mathematical investigation
- Other terms
- addition
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