Creative Ways to Assess Math Understanding
Jacob Lund / Alamy Stock Photo Math teachers are rethinking student assessments in creative ways that allow them to get a broader picture of kids’ conceptual math understanding, writes Madeline Will for Education Week. And while this creative approach to assessing student knowledge is, at least in part, due to remote learning, the strategies are powerful and make sense during a normal school year. “I think this is good for a lot of us math teachers because it’s forced us to rethink what assessments are supposed to accomplish,” math teacher Matthew Rector told Will. “In the past, mo...