Evaluate 1.1.1 Formative Assessment

Formative assessments are an essential tool to check your students progress and understanding of material.  There are many different types of formative assessments that can be used in a variety of different ways.  It all depends on needs of the students as to what I would decide to use as a formative assessment.  In math, in most cases, the students have to understand the current material before they are able to move on and be successful in the next lesson.  If I see that a student or group of students is struggling with a particular topic on a formative assessment then I know that they are not ready for the unit test and we need to spend some more time working on that.  Or I may need to reteach something in a different way.  Formative assessments are very useful to teachers and students.  Below I have taken some screen shots of some short formative assessment (ticket out the door) type activities that I have used this year in my analytic geometry class when graphing and writing equations or circles and parabolas.

Circles Formative:

Parabolas Formative: