ABSTRACT
A useful approach to developing an assessment plan for mathematics instruction is to begin with a consideration of goals in the mathematics curriculum as a whole. Visual models are also used to support students' investigation of fraction operations, including addition, subtraction, and multiplication. School leaders and teachers who recognize how fundamental the practices are to learning the new content standards will certainly be interested in using performance assessments. School mathematics has traditionally been taught as a fixed set of facts and procedures for computing numerical and symbolic expressions to find one correct answer. Some mathematics curriculum goals may be assessed through traditional testing. Most mathematics textbooks are still organized in a series of chapters or units, rather than clusters and standards. The idea of creating performance tasks for all those areas of the mathematics curriculum for which they would be well suited can be daunting.
