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Area

Strand: Shape and Space (Measurement)
Outcome: 2

Step 4: Assess Student Learning

Guiding Questions

• Look back at what you determined as acceptable evidence in Step 2.
• What are the most appropriate methods and activities for assessing student learning?
• How will I align my assessment strategies with my teaching strategies?

Sample Assessment Tasks

In addition to ongoing assessment throughout the lessons, consider the following sample activities to evaluate students' learning at key milestones. Suggestions are given for assessing all students as a class or in groups, individual students in need of further evaluation and individual or groups of students in a variety of contexts.

A. Whole Class/Group Assessment

Note: Performance-based assessment tasks are under development.

Examples of Group Assessment

B. One-on-One Assessment

Examples of One on One Assessment  

C. Applied Learning

Provide opportunities for students to use their area formulas in a practical situation and notice whether or not the understanding transfers. For example, have students find how many square metres of canvas are needed to repair the triangular face of a tent with the base of the triangle as 2.8 m and the perpendicular height as 1.2 m. Does the student:

• estimate about how many square metres of canvas would be needed?
• apply the formula for the area of a triangle and explain the process?
• explain more than one way to apply the formula, such as finding the product of the base and height and dividing by two or dividing the height by two and multiplying the quotient by the base?
• readily adjust the area if you double the base of the triangle or the height of the triangle or both and explain the process?
• find the base of the triangle if provided with the area and the height and explain the process?

Related Resources

• Assessment in the Mathematics