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Assessment
Lessons 1-6
Number Sense
Assessment Review Objective:

This is your chance to show your understanding and skills in number sense. You have learned and practiced many of the skills needed. Now you can prove it to yourself!

You will be asked to demonstrate your skills in areas practiced in Lessons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. There will be some multiple choice and some short answer questions.

Here is a list of the objectives you have studied and practiced in this first set of lessons.

Lesson 1
Number and Numeration

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the pictorial and symbolic representations of integers, fractions, decimals, percents, and place value of decimals.
  • Compare and order integers, fractions, and decimals.

Lesson 2
Number Theory

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the properties of the rational number system.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of concepts and processes involving prime and composite numbers, factors and multiples, and divisibility.

Lesson 3
Conceptual Understanding of Operations

  • Demonstrate an understanding of operations on non-negative rational numbers.

Lesson 4
Computation

  • Add, subtract, multiply, and divide non-negative whole numbers, fractions, and decimals using rules for order of operations

Lesson 5
Estimation

  • Identify situations involving non-negative numbers in which estimation is sufficient and computation is NOT required.
  • Use estimation to predict computation results and to determine reasonableness of answers.

Lesson 6
Ratio and Proportion

  • Demonstrate an understanding of and apply the concepts of ratio and direct proportion.

Review the Tips for each lesson. Remember, there is more information on each lesson's page. This is a good place to start, but you will also want to go back and review the first page of each lesson.

If you have time, you might skim over the Examples for each lesson.

Skim the Rubrics section of this course to review tips on answering multiple choice and short answer questions.

Be sure you are comfortable with the criteria for scoring and evaluating short answer questions because scoring your writing will be part of your responsibility.

When you are all warmed up and have enough time to complete the assessment, go ahead and demonstrate your effective math skills!

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