Student Work #3

The picture to the left which consists of a chart is how my mentor teacher keeps track of the four math sheets that she has given the students. At the top is the page of the worksheet that was given. As you can see in the picture on the right in the bottom left-hand corner it say s"PW62", therefore it is the second worksheet that was given. Going back to the chart on the left, the scores written in black ink directly in the column beneath the test title. Written in red ink next to the original score is  the second attempt the students had to better their score by correcting the worksheet, like the picture on the right indicates needs to be done. The orange marks on the chart indicate that that particular worksheet has yet to be turned in. Two of the students near the bottom of the chart are new to the classroom, therefore do not have any scores yet. The stars in the rows to the left indicate that that student has completed all worksheets, as well as corrected them and have returned them for a grade. This past Friday my mentor teacher had me run off more copies of the missing worksheets to be sent home with the students to be completed and brought back for a grade. 

The worksheet on the right belongs to a student who has turned in all of her work, but has yet to correct this worksheet. Students like her were also sent home with their work that needed to be corrected. Since the teacher is giving the students an opportunity to fix their mistakes, I would say that the big idea is not to test the student's knowledge, but to assess the understandings the students hold about larger digit math. This worksheet shown on the right assess  three digit multiplication, as well as division, addition and subtraction of larger numbers in the mixed-review. 

When looking at the student's work I can't tell if the students were allowed to use calculators or if they were expected to do the work by hand. I do not see enough work shown to prove that the student did it by hand, but if the student used a calculator then I don't see where they could have gone wrong. Perhaps they were allowed to use a separate sheet of paper to do their work on, but without it it is difficult to analyze this student's thinking. From the work that I do see on the paper, it seems as though she understands how to multiply larger numbers by one another, but again, I can't be sure. 

She did not get any questions wrong on the addition, subtraction, and single digit multiplication. I also find it peculiar that question 5 is incorrect, but the teacher did not mark it wrong. Perhaps she simply overlooked it, but I would assume that she used a key to correct these items.