SkyMath Rodent Scoring Profile Sheet
Rodent Romp Task
NCTM Standards
1. Mathematics as Problem Solving
2. Mathematics as Communication
3. Mathematics as Reasoning
4. Mathematical Connections
9. Algebra
10. Statistics
Essential Requirements of Task
- Identify and interpret specific data in graph captions
- Estimate (to with 0.5 minutes) the time associated with a point
- Estimate (to within 2 degrees) the temperature associated with a
point
- Associate comment events with points on the graph
- Justify event-point associations using by recall
- Justify event-point associations by relating to anchor
associations
on the scale
- Justify event-point associations by ordering relative temperatures of
events
- Justify that more than one event may be associated with a peak/valley
- Relate the shape of the graph to rate of change
- Compute a numerical estimate of the rate change of temperature
between
two points
- Estimate the number of temperature readings taken during a time
period
- Estimate the time elapsed between two points
- Estimate change in temperature (magnitude and direction) between two
points
Major Flaws
- Incorrectly reports the temperature or time associated with a point
- Associates an incorrect unit of time measure with the horizontal scale
- Confuses events measured Fahrenheit with those measured in Celsius
- Incorrectly pairs events with peaks and valleys
- Cannot provide clear justifications for event-point associations
- Omits an entire task
- Confuses the measures of time-location with those of time-duration
- Uses the wrong units in reporting the rate of change
- Does not use most of the available data in computing the rate of
change
Minor Flaws
- Incorrectly distinguishes between the lower of two relatively close
valleys
- Incorrectly distinguishes between the higher of two relatively close
peaks
- Incorrectly distinguishes between the greater of two relatively high
rates
of change
- Fails to report one part of the date (day, month, year)
- Fails to report one event-point association
- Fails to justify one of the two most confident
associations
Euclid's travels: Monitor (A), Desk (B), water cooler (C), coffee (D),
window sill (E), under arm (F),air conditioner vent (G).
This profile can be used to assign a numerical score with the help of a
Scoring Rubric.