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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, Space, Build understanding, Apply understanding
Topics	Operating with number, Patterns and algebra, Shapes and objects
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M4N02 Explain and use the properties of odd and even numbers AC9M4N09 Follow and create algorithms involving a sequence of steps and decisions that use addition or multiplication to generate sets of numbers; identify and describe any emerging patterns
Numeracy progression	Multiplicative strategies (P6, P7) Additive strategies (P8)
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