Rigor: Require fluency, application, and deep understanding

Rigor: Require fluency, application, and deep understanding

Problem Solving to Develop Mathematical Concepts

You have them ACE it!

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Implementing ACE

Introduce the ACE poster and concept

to students

Go over poster, hang in your

classroom.

Have students setup their own folder.

Run through a Constructed Response.

Grade Student Work as a Class

• Give students a problem.• Have them brainstorm a solution with a partner.• Work as a class to understand the solution and

appropriate plans.• Give students copies of student work for the

problem.• Have students sort the work into 0-3 points,

following the ACE format (use the checksheet).• Discuss.

Grade Student Work as a Class

• You can find problems with graded student responses in MCAS link (2007 – 2009) have more open-ended questions then years following.

• Try something relatively easy, maybe from the previous year.

Class Models of ACE Solutions

• Students work with a partner to think about the problem and come up with a solution

• Groups present their ideas

• A class solution is written out using ACE

• Students reflect on the model. – Does the solution follow the steps to get full

credit on ACE?

• This may have to be done several times

Sample Problem Grade 3

Sample Problem Grade 4

Sample Problem Grade 5

Sample Problem Grade 6

Establish Student Baseline Score

• Teacher assigns a problem.

• Students do it individually.

• Teacher grades the problem using the ACE evaluation sheet

Peer Evaluation

• Introduce Peer Evaluation forms

• Students do a problem individually.

• Students switch papers and “grade” the problem using the ACE evaluation sheet

Problem Cycle

Students do a problem

Peer Evaluation, filling out theCheck Sheet

Student Tracks his/her progress

After 2 problems Teacher collects & grades,

student tracks the data.

Scaffold the answer sheets.

• K-5 Math Resources

• Performance Based Assessments aligned to EM (K-5)

• Mars Tasks by Grade 2-8

• Washington state math problems by grade and strand- explain how

Supplement what you already have with these web resources