Math – Will This Be on the Test? (Test Practice Questions and Test Talks)

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Written by Sarah Lonberg-Lew and published by the SABES Mathematics and Adult Numeracy Curriculum & Instruction PD Center, this packet introduces an instructional routine called a Test Talk.

Test Talks will help you create and nurture a classroom culture that values flexible thinking and conceptual understanding and that explicitly prepares students to apply their learning in the context of standardized tests. The bulk of this packet is examples of test-like questions that can be used with this routine. There are 22 separate test-like questions, which explanations of multiple strategies included.

For more practice test questions in other subject areas, see: https://www.collectedny.org/list/practice-test-questions/

Test Talks are intended to:

Help students apply and extend their learning in the context of standardized test questions
Solidify learning and act as a formative assessment
Empower students to think flexibly and creatively in test situations
Build students’ capacity to make sense of problems and persevere in solving them (Standard for Mathematical Practice #1 in the CCRSAE)

The test-like questions in this packet can also be found in the ongoing blog series Will This Be on the Test? found at https://www.terc.edu/adultnumeracycenter/blog/.