First Math Test

Your child's first math test will come home in the this week's Friday Folder.  We just finished the review of place value and using what they already knew to manipulate numbers up to 10,000.

Our class taking the first math test.

You will notice at the top of each section that the test specifies how many points each question is worth.  For example, “5 x 2 points = 10 points” means that the following 5 questions are each worth 2 points each, for a total of 10 points for that section.  If your child was on the right track, but didn’t get the answer right, I may have given him/her half of what that question was worth.  So, if the question was worth 2 points and your child got it wrong but was on the right track, I gave him/her 1 of the 2 points possible.  The green pen grading was your child’s first try. 

After I score the first try, I pass the tests back to the students for them to look through and to see their mistakes.  Without any further instruction I ask the students to look at their mistakes and try to figure out where they went wrong.  Then, they make their changes in colored pencil and I grade the second try in purple pen.

After the second round of grading, we go over the tests together to make sure the students understand how to work each problem.  Please let me know if you have any questions about your child’s math test!