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  4. Operations with Fractions
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Additional Information

Guidelines for marking

The following guidelines for marking show one approach to assigning a value to a student’s work. Other approaches may be used that better suit the reporting process of the school. Categories, marks, grades, visual representations or individual comments/notations may all be useful.

Range
Students in this range:
High
  • correctly perform processes of addition and multiplication of fractions, reducing all answers to simplest form
  • correctly apply multiplication of fractions in a meaningful context.
Satisfactory
  • correctly perform processes of addition and multiplication of fractions.
Progressing
  • demonstrate knowledge and understanding of process of addition or multiplication of fractions.

Feedback

Students will receive:

  • possible prompt questions related to the assessment Activity to assist their engagement
  • written feedback on individual responses to indicate evidence of understanding of the concepts related to addition and subtraction of fractions
  • specific advice about strategies to further consolidate knowledge, skills and understanding, and suggestions for completing related additional tasks
  • oral feedback (to the class and individuals) related to the overall understanding of the concepts and misconceptions about the mathematical ideas.
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