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'.

Resource details

Year level

Year 4

Purpose

Teaching resource Assessment tasks Assessment advice

Strand

Number Space

Topic

Operating with number Patterns and algebra Shapes and objects

Audience

Teachers

Format

Downloadable resource

Australian Curriculum code

AC9M4N02 AC9M4N09

Numeracy progression

Multiplicative strategies (P6, P7) Additive strategies (P8)

Publisher

reSolve Maths by Inquiry

Copyright

© Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment 2021. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Keywords

odd number even number shape mathematical investigation