{"id":36087,"date":"2018-03-24T16:30:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T23:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/?p=36087"},"modified":"2018-03-24T16:30:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T23:30:26","slug":"intervention-tip-have-students-practice-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/intervention-tip-have-students-practice-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Intervention Tip: Have students practice test"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes students need to review test problems also.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You know that there is a difference between the test problems and the practice problems, right?\u00a0 The problems practiced around the outside are the recently introduced facts.\u00a0 The problems inside the test box are an even mix of all the problems taught so far.\u00a0 Sometimes students have forgotten some of the older facts.\u00a0 For example, if there has been a break for a week or more, or if the student has been stuck for a couple of weeks, the student may have forgotten some of the facts from earlier and may need a review of the test problems.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>How you could diagnose for this problem.<\/strong>\u00a0 Have the student practice orally on the test problems inside the box with you.\u00a0 If the student\u00a0hesitates<\/u>\u00a0on several of the problems that aren\u2019t on the outside practice, then the student needs to review the test items.<\/p>\n

Solution.\u00a0<\/strong>If you have this problem with quite a few students (for example after summer break or after Christmas break) then have the whole class do this solution. \u00a0For the next week, after practicing around the outside, instead of taking the 1 minute test in writing, have students practice the test problems orally with each other.\u00a0 Use the same procedures as during the practice\u2014two or three minutes with answer keys for the test, saying the problem and the answer aloud, correction procedures for hesitations, correct by saying the problem and answer three times, then going back\u2014then switch roles.\u00a0 \u00a0Do this for a week and then give the one-minute test. \u00a0\u00a0Just about everyone should pass at that point.<\/p>\n

Solution.<\/strong>\u00a0 If you have this problem with a handful of students, find a time during the day for them to practice the test problems orally in pairs.\u00a0 If the practice occurs before doing Rocket Math so much the better, but it will work if done after as well.\u00a0 They should keep doing this until they pass a couple of levels within six days.<\/p>\n

If neither the first or the second solutions seem to work, write to me again and I\u2019ll give you some more ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes students need to review test problems also. You know that there is a difference between the test problems and the practice problems, right?\u00a0 The problems practiced around the outside are the recently introduced facts.\u00a0 The problems inside the test box are an even mix of all the problems taught so far.\u00a0 Sometimes students have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":837,"featured_media":33289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0},"categories":[44],"tags":[35,37,36,47,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36089,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36087\/revisions\/36089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}