/adultnumeracycenter/will-this-be-on-the-test-jan-2022/ Sun, 01 Oct 2023 06:19:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /adultnumeracycenter/will-this-be-on-the-test-jan-2022/#comment-30 Sun, 01 Oct 2023 06:19:33 +0000 /adultnumeracycenter/?p=1729#comment-30 […] 3. Tell a story of how you would find the area. One thing that is really challenging about a question like this is that the correct answer choice may not match how the student reasoned about the task. There are many correct expressions that could be used to find the area available to the goat, but only one of those is listed in the answer choices. However, if students practice connecting stories to expressions and expressions to stories, they will not be fazed by not seeing their own reasoning reflected in the answer choices and may be able to recognize the “correct” answer. For example, if the student’s story is, “First I would find the area of a whole circle whose radius is 75 feet, and then I would divide that area by 4 to get the quarter-circle in my picture,” the student’s expression might be (752 ✕ 𝜋) ÷ 4. Even though that expression is not among the answer choices, the student could look for an expression with similar elements and tell the story of that expression to see if it also would work to find the desired area. (For more about “choose the correct expression” type problems, see the January 2022 installment of Will This Be on the Test.) […] ]]> /adultnumeracycenter/will-this-be-on-the-test-jan-2022/#comment-29 Sun, 01 Jan 2023 13:35:02 +0000 /adultnumeracycenter/?p=1729#comment-29 […] to bring real conceptual reasoning to questions students might encounter on a standardized test. One year ago, we met Alicia who works in an appliance store and earns a commission on sales. Let’s check back […] ]]>