Please note: This site contains links to websites not controlled by the Australian Government or ESA. More information here.
reSolve: Assessing Reasoning: Year 4 Exemplars
This series of three 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 4, 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'.
Additional details |
|
Year level(s) | Year 4 |
---|---|
Audience | Teacher |
Purpose | Teaching resource, Assessment task, Assessment advice |
Format | Downloadable resources |
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Mathematics investigation |
Keywords | assessment, reasoning, professional learning, odd numbers, even numbers, number patterns, shapes, explicit teaching |
Curriculum alignment |
|
Curriculum connections | Numeracy |
Strand and focus | Number, Geometry, Build understanding, Apply understanding |
Topics | Operating with number, Patterns and algebra, Shapes and objects |
AC: Mathematics content descriptions |
ACMNA071
Investigate and use the properties of odd and even numbers
ACMNA081
Explore and describe number patterns resulting from performing multiplication
ACMMG088
Compare and describe two dimensional shapes that result from combining and splitting common shapes, with and without the use of digital technologies
|
National numeracy learning progression |
Additive strategies
-
AdS6
Number patterns and algebraic thinking - NPA5 Understanding geometric properties - UGP3 |
Copyright details |
|
Organisation | reSolve Maths by Inquiry |
Copyright | © Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment 2021. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
Related resources
-
Shapes and circles
Investigate the relationship between the features of circles and 2D shapes. Using formulas to solve problems involving circumference and area.
Resource details -
reSolve: Algebra: Odds and Evens
An inquiry-based lesson about odd and even numbers and finding unknowns in number sentences.
Resource details -
Number line
This prompt invites students to generalise about the difference between two products.
Resource details -
Steps inquiry
This prompt invites students to place a number in the larger circle and calculate the results of taking the steps in the two paths.
Resource details