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Struggling student
Student is developing helpful strategies for math as well, although she still has significant difficulty with many concepts. In geometry, she is able to determine the area of a rectangle and identify right angles in a shape. She was not able to accurately count the number of rows and columns in a rectangle, or determine its area. She also needs more practice with the visual-spatial aspects of geometry, such as identifying a shape that has mirror symmetry and listing mathematical attributes of 2D and 3D shapes. In data, she can create a line plot from a set of data and sometimes correctly interpret a graph. She needs more practice with creating Venn diagrams, with interpreting graphs, and with sorting objects into categories. Student needs continued practice with place value, addition, and subtraction. She is increasing her fluency with basic facts such as doubles (4+4), make-ten facts (6+4, 7+3, etc.), plus-ones, and plus-twos, but still needs practice. She can then start to work on the doubles-plus-one facts (5+6, 6+7, etc.). When solving word problems, Student sometimes makes small calculation errors, or adds when the problem is asking her to subtract. She needs to work on building more efficient strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems as well.

Mid-range student
Student is getting stronger in math as well. In geometry, she is able to determine the area of a rectangle, and identify how many rows and columns it contains. She can identify right angles in a shape, identify a shape that has mirror symmetry, and list mathematical attributes of 2D and 3D shapes. In data, she can sort items into categories, create a line plot from a set of data, and correctly interpret a graph most of the time. She needs a little more practice with creating Venn diagrams. Student still needs continued practice with place value, addition, and subtraction. She is increasing her fluency with basic facts such as doubles (4+4), make-ten facts (6+4, 7+3, etc.), plus-ones, and plus-twos, but still needs practice. She can then start to work on the doubles-plus-one facts (5+6, 6+7, etc.). When solving word problems, Student sometimes makes small calculation errors, or adds when the problem is asking her to subtract. She needs to work on building more efficient strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems as well.

Strong student
Student’s math work is very strong. In geometry, he is able to determine the area of a rectangle, and identify how many rows and columns it contains. He can identify right angles in a shape, identify a shape that has mirror symmetry, and list mathematical attributes of 2D shapes, although he needs more practice on doing so with 3D shapes. In data, he can sort items into categories, create a line plot from a set of data, place items in a Venn diagram, and correctly interpret a graph most of the time. Student has a strong grasp of place value, addition, and subtraction. He is fluent with most of his basic facts such as doubles (4+4), make-ten facts (6+4, 7+3, etc.), plus-ones, plus-twos, and doubles-plus-one facts (5+6, 6+7, etc.). He can use these facts to combine strings of numbers (ie. 10+5+5+13) efficiently and accurately. He can solve addition and subtraction story problems efficiently and accurately and show his work on paper. He is ready for our continued work on developing more sophisticated and efficient ways to solve problems.