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An essay by Youcubed founder Jo Boaler (author of Mathematical Mindsets and other key works), best summarized by this quote from the conclusion: "By using assessments to empower students to learn and grow, we can help our students develop positive attitudes towards mathematics and themselves."

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.

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to solve problems involving area and arc length of a sector of a circle using radians. It assumes familiarity with radians and should not be treated as an introduction to the topic. This lesson is intended to help you identify and assist students who have difficulties in:

• Computing perimeters, areas, and arc lengths of sectors using formulas.
• Finding the relationships between arc lengths, and areas of sectors after scaling.

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students solve problems involving measurement and in particular, to identify and help students who have difficulty:
Computing measurements using formulas.
Decomposing compound shapes into simpler ones.
Using right triangles and their properties to solve real-world problems.

This document supports teachers in choosing a formative assessment lesson for Unit 5 in Geometry.

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to interpret exponential and linear functions and in particular to identify and help students who have the following difficulties:

* Translating between descriptive, algebraic and tabular data, and graphical representation of the functions.
* Recognizing how, and why, a quantity changes per unit interval.

To achieve these goals students work on simple and compound interest problems.

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to solve problems involving area and volume, and in particular, to help you identify and assist students who have difficulties with:

• Computing perimeters, areas, and volumes using formulas.
• Finding the relationships between perimeters, areas, and volumes of shapes after scaling.

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.

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.

An FAL that focuses on scale factor and similar figures.

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.

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to understand the relationship between the slopes of parallel and perpendicular lines and, in particular, to help identify students who find it difficult to:

• Find, from their equations, lines that are parallel and perpendicular.
• Identify and use intercepts.

It also aims to encourage discussion on some common misconceptions about equations of lines.