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The Initial Task for a unit is intended to both preview the upcoming mathematics for a student and help teachers see how their students understand the mathematics prior to the unit.
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This page contains instructions on how to use the initial task, Mystery Letters, to find out what your students already know about forming and solving equations.
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The resources for Big Idea 1 focus on analyzing quantities from a situation and using them to write an equation or inequality. The distinction between a function and equation is also explored.
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The resources for Big Idea 2 focus on solving equations and inequalities, and using visual models and properties to explain each step in the process involved in solving equations and inequalities.
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The resources for Big Idea 3 focus on analyzing quantities from a situation and using them to write and solve equations or inequalities with the variable on both sides of the equality or inequality sign.
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A Formative Assessment Lesson (also known as a Classroom Challenge) is a carefully designed lesson that both supports teachers in understanding how students make sense of the unit's mathematics and offers students opportunities to revisit and deepen their understanding of that mathematics.
A Classroom Challenge (aka formative assessment lesson) is a classroom-ready lesson that supports formative assessment. The lesson’s approach first allows students to demonstrate their prior understandings and abilities in employing the mathematical practices, and then involves students in resolving their own difficulties and misconceptions through structured discussion.
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Re-engagement means going back to a familiar problem or task and looking at it again in different ways, with a new lens, or going deeper into the mathematics. This is often done by showing examples of student work and providing prompts to help students think about the mathematical ideas differently. This guide provides more information on how to design re-engagement lessons for your students which you can use at any time during a unit where you think it will be helpful for students to revisit a specific mathematical idea before moving on.
Re-engagement means going back to a familiar problem or task and looking at it again in different ways, with a new lens, or going deeper into the mathematics. This is often done by showing examples of student work and providing prompts to help students think about the mathematical ideas differently. This guide provides more information on how to design re-engagement lessons for your students, which you can use at any time during a unit, where you think it will be helpful for students to revisit a specific mathematical idea before moving on.
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The End of Unit Assessment is intended to surface how students understand the mathematics in relation to the end of year goal of a Regents examination. To support retention, the end of unit assessments are intentionally designed with spiralled questions from previous units.
After this unit, how prepared are your students for the end-of-course Regents examination? The end of unit assessment is designed to surface how students understand the mathematics in the unit. It includes spiralled multiple choice and constructed response questions, comparable to those on the end-of-course Regents examination. A rich task, that allows for multiple entry points and authentic assessment of student learning, may be available for some units and can be included as part of the end of unit assessment. All elements of the end of unit assessment are aligned to the NYS Mathematics Learning Standards and PARCC Model Frameworks prioritization.
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Quiz Banker creates student-ready editable quiz and answer documents based on an item bank of over 2500 NY state exam questions.
This link takes you to the New Visions Cloudlab, where you can get the Quiz Banker add-on and watch videos about how to use this Google Sheets tool (note: you need to add Quiz Banker to your Google tools once; if you have previously installed the add-on, it appears in the "Add-ons" menu in Google Sheets).
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