Final Math Motion Geometry grade sent home today

January 28, 2013

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Attached to this letter is a quiz that your child completed on the third part of our Motion Geometry unit.  We divided the  unit into three components:  translations, rotations and reflections. We are now finished our unit on Motion Geometry and we will be beginning our Multiplication unit this week.

As you can see we have highlighted two scores on the charts below to give you an indication as to how your child performed during the rotations part of this unit as well as for the entire unit.  The first chart indicates a score on rotations and the second chart shows your child`s overall grade for Motion Geometry.  The overall grade is the one that you will see on your child`s Term 2 report card for Geometry.

We have also attached your child`s quiz on rotations. You will see that there is a rubric attached to the first page of the rotations quiz, the score on this page lets you know how your child performed in the reasoning category on Question 1.  As you are aware, reasoning is a separate area on the report card.  For reasoning we like to have a variety of samples as a child can perform quite well in one strand of Math reasoning and then have difficulty in another.  The rubric with the highlighted reasoning grade is not the final grade for the next report card.

Regards,

Deanne Burton-Snow and Christina Pyke

ROTATIONS

Rating Scale:         Name___________________________

5	Your child demonstrates a strong understanding of the outcomes
4	Your child demonstrates a good understanding of the outcomes
3	Your child demonstrates a satisfactory understanding of the outcomes
2	Your child demonstrates a beginning understanding of the outcomes
1	Your child has not yet demonstrated an understanding of the outcomes
N/A	Not applicable

 

OVERALL GRADE FOR MOTION GEOMETRY UNIT

Rating Scale:        

5	Your child demonstrates a strong understanding of the outcomes
4	Your child demonstrates a good understanding of the outcomes
3	Your child demonstrates a satisfactory understanding of the outcomes
2	Your child demonstrates a beginning understanding of the outcomes
1	Your child has not yet demonstrated an understanding of the outcomes
N/A	Not applicable