Questioning Tasks

This assignment was a take-home/homework task for the students. They were required to write numbers in the top row of boxes (which was designed to assess their knowledge of number order and writing of symbols). The other two areas that involved mathematics were the 'value of coins' box and the 'draw number of objects' box. The coins were a test of the student's ability to count, as only pennies were included. And the other box assessed the students' ability to read and connect the numerical script to the graphemes of our written language, then prove the connection by drawing the number of objects listed.

1. Is 'objects' box really a test of knowledge? The student did not write the number 1 in the box and she drew a picture of a person. Maybe if it called for writing & drawing two things, rather than one, we could actually assess this student's knowlege.
1. A way to test this would be to speak to the student individually. They may have simply forgotten to write the number one in the box & knew the word. I would ask her why she drew a person, then to identify the word above the person.
2. Why were pennies involved in the currency box? How may students learn to that this coin has an actual value?
1. I may have the students color the pennies with a brown/copper colored crayon so that they make the connection between the coins they see daily and what is drawn on the paper. Some students could have simply counted the number of objects and not realized that the coins have value.
3. How are each of these separate tasks related? Why are they on the same worksheet?
1. I have no idea. I could ask the teacher how they were related. I think each task is a general Kindergarten task that each student should be able to complete by the end of the year.