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Mental Computation Practice Cards - Grade 6-7

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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 7 level and also for grade 6, thus providing practice two or three times per week throughout the year.

Daily Half-Dozen: Paper and Pencil Computation Drills for Grade 7

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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 7 level contain six exercise areas that are aligned with the Michigan Essential Goals and Objectives.

Assessment Activities

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• Formative Assessment - Under the Boardwalk
  Students will analyze sample game questions to determine reasonableness of answers through the use of various estimation strategies. Students will explain how they determined that an answer was unreasonable.

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• Open-Ended Questions (Constructed Response)
  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.

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• Multiple Choice
  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.

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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.

Evaluation and Feedback Form

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Assessment 2000

Family Activities in Mathematics - A MEAP Test Skill Development Project - Grade 7

Directions: Write or draw to answer the questions. There may be more than one way to answer correctly. Show as much of your work as possible.

1. The following sets of triangles and squares are formed according to a pattern.

A. Describe Set 100 and tell how the first 3 sets helped you decide what Set 100 looks
    like.

B. Which Set has 144 triangles? Explain the reasoning you used to determine this.

MISD, September, 97

145

Aligned with the Michigan Curriculum Framework, Michigan Department of Education, and adapted from the Maryland Assessment Consortium