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Mental Computation Practice Cards - Grade 3-4

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Aligned with the Michigan Essential Goals and Objectives, the cards provide a helpful way to obtain brief regular practice. The cards need to be administered in a mode where time can be regulated (to prevent using pencils for figuring and to promote mental activity). The cards, in and of themselves, do not teach mental computation strategies. The cards only provide opportunity for practice. There are 75 cards for grade 4 level and also for grade 3, thus providing practice two or three times per week throughout the year.

Daily Half-Dozen: Paper and Pencil Computation Drills for Grade 3-4

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The drill cards are designed to reinforce mathematics vocabulary and to help students attain a reasonable level of paper-and-pencil computational skills. These drills should follow instruction and are not, in themselves, a method of learning a skill. Each of the 150 drill cards that are provided for grade 4 level contain six exercise areas that are aligned with the Michigan Essential Goals and Objectives. One Hundred-fifty (150) cards are also provided for grade 3.

Assessment Activities

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Formative Assessments - Lemonade Stand

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Students are opening a lemonade stand to make money. They must buy cups, ice, and lemonade mix. After selling 16 cups for 10 cents a cup, students must determine why their lemonade stand is not a profitable business and discuss what they would do to make if profitable.

Open-Ended Questions (Constructed Response)

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The items in this section develop skill in writing answers to questions. The questions require students to explain their thinking in clear and complete sentences. Guides (rubrics) are provided for evaluating the student’s response.

Multiple Choice

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This section teaches the student how to take a multiple choice test, while evaluating content knowledge. Answers are provided for evaluating the student’s response.

Software

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This section contains a list of software that has been reviewed by educators and is appropriate for students. The list has a description of the software, comments by the reviewer, and how to order.

Internet Activities

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This section contains a list of appropriate activities for developing concepts and skills. The activities have been reviewed by mathematics educators. The list has a brief description of the activity, comments by the reviewer, and how to access the activity.

Children’s Literature for Learning Mathematics

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This section contains a list of books for children that integrate mathematical concepts with enjoyable reading. The books in this list have been reviewed by mathematics educators, used by classroom teachers and read by students. The list includes a brief description of each book, comments by the reviewer, and how to obtain the book.

Evaluation and Feedback Form

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Assessment 2000

Family Activities in Mathematics - A MEAP Test Skill Development Project - Grade 4

ACTIVITY 1

A. You want to open a lemonade stand to make money. You go to the store to get your
    supplies, You buy 20 cups for $1.07. The ice costs $.71. The lemonade package costs $.45
    and will make enough lemonade for 16 cups.

How much money did you spend at the store? _______ Show all your work below.

You decide to sell your lemonade for $.10 a cup. Fill in the chart below.

How many cups of lemonade have you sold?_______ In the space below, show how you solved the problem.

MISD, September, 97

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Aligned from Michigan Curriculum Framework, Michigan Department of Education,

and adapted from the Maryland Assessment Consortium