Process Strand 6: Solves Problems and Reasons Logically - Item Specification (8-2005)
SR02 (Construct Solutions) Select and organize relevant information; use appropriate concepts and procedures from number sense, measurement, geometric sense, probability and statistics, and algebraic sense; use a variety of strategies and approaches; determine whether a solution is viable, mathematically correct, and answers the question(s) asked (2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4?)
Item Format:
· Short-Answer and Extended-Response items may be used to assess this learning target.
Stimulus, Stem, and Prompt Rules:
· Stimulus may include tables, charts, graphs, maps, diagrams, 2- and 3-dimensional figures, statistics, data, and other mathematical information
· Negative integers may be used in items dealing with temperature or money.
· Problem situations may have multiple viable solutions.
· Problems may present real-world situations that could be encountered by seventh graders.
· Stimulus may include ideas and information from number sense, measurement, geometric sense, probability and statistics, and algebraic sense.
Mathematical Vocabulary and Terms:
· All vocabulary and terms allowed and restricted in content strand specifications apply to Solves Problems and Reasons Logically items.
· Terms that may be used in items: solution, solve, strategy
· Terms that may be used with definitions or examples:
· Terms that may not be used: guess- check- revise, work backward or other specific names of problem solving strategies, viable
Item Characteristics:
a) Items may ask students to solve a problem by doing the following:
· show understanding of the problem by selecting and organizing relevant information;b) Items may ask students to determine whether a given solution shows the use and organization of relevant information.
· use strategies and procedures appropriately to construct a solution;
· answer the problem with a viable solution that is mathematically correct and answers the question(s) asked.
c) Items may ask students to determine whether a given solution shows the use of strategies and procedures that are appropriate.
d) Items may ask students to determine whether a given answer is a viable solution, mathematically correct, and/or answers the question(s) asked in a problem situation.