Assessing Math Concepts: Counting Objects is Concept 1 of nine in the Mathematical Perspectives Assessing Math Concepts series. The series is a continuum of assessments that focus on important core concepts and related "Critical Learning Phases" that must be in place if children are to understand and be successful in mathematics. This assessment series is based on the premise that teachers will be able to provide more effective instruction and ensure maximum learning for each of their students when they are aware of the essential steps that children move through when developing an understanding of foundational mathematical ideas. The data that is gathered and organized using the assessment tools presented here provides teachers with the information that is needed to determine precisely what children need to learn.

Assessing Math Concepts: Counting Objects

Richardson, Kathy

Mathematical Perspectives

Assessing Math Concepts is a nine part series of assessments that focus on core concepts that must be in place if children are to understand and be successful in mathematics. The information that is gathered and organized helps the teacher’s awareness of the important steps in the learning process and provides information for instructional decision making. 
Each book provides the teacher background information for giving and using the assessment tasks, instructions for doing classroom observations, tips for organizing information and suggestions for instruction. Black line masters are included and can be reproduced for classroom assessment activities. 
The Hiding Assessment will determine if children can recognize the parts of a number to ten, solve subtraction problems, and write subtraction equations, seeing the relationship between composition and decomposition of numbers.

Assessing Math Concepts: Hiding Assessment

Assessing Math Concepts is a nine part series of assessments that focus on core concepts that must be in place if children are to understand and be successful in mathematics. The information that is gathered and organized helps the teacher’s awareness of the important steps in the learning process and provides information for instructional decision making. 
Each book provides the teacher background information for giving and using the assessment tasks, instructions for doing classroom observations, tips for organizing information and suggestions for instruction. Black line masters are included and can be reproduced for classroom assessment activities. 
"Grouping Tens" helps determine if children can organize quantities into tens and ones, add and subtract tens without counting, and count groups of tens.

Assessing Math Concepts: Grouping Tens

Assessing Math Concepts is a nine part series of assessments that focus on core concepts that must be in place if children are to understand and be successful in mathematics. The information that is gathered and organized helps the teacher’s awareness of the important steps in the learning process and provides information for instructional decision making. 
Each book provides the teacher background information for giving and using the assessment tasks, instructions for doing classroom observations, tips for organizing information and suggestions for instruction. Black line masters are included and can be reproduced for classroom assessment activities. 
"Changing Numbers" will assess if children can: change one quantity to another, describe how one number is related to another, know how many to take away or add, determine whether to take away or add to reach another number, and count on or remove extras to change a number.

Assessing Math Concepts: Changing Numbers

Assessing Math Concepts is a nine part series of assessments that focus on core concepts that must be in place if children are to understand and be successful in mathematics. The information that is gathered and organized helps the teacher’s awareness of the important steps in the learning process and provides information for instructional decision making. 
Each book provides the teacher background information for giving and using the assessment tasks, instructions for doing classroom observations, tips for organizing information and suggestions for instruction. Black line masters are included and can be reproduced for classroom assessment activities. 
"More/Less Trains" will assess if children can: compare two groups and determine which is more and which is less and compare two groups in a variety of settings and determine how many more or how many less one number is than another.

Assessing Math Concepts: More/Less Trains