Balanced Assessment for the Mathematics Curriculum

Balanced Assessment helps teachers pinpoint areas where students need reinforcement by providing assessment tasks that serve as instructional problems to enhance your existing curriculum. The program offers a balance of opportunities—long and short tasks, basic knowledge and problem solving, individual and group work, and the spectrum of concepts and processes that reflect the vision of the NCTM Standards—leading to student success in mathematics.

Each book includes ten to twenty tasks each with an overview, a task prompt for students, sample solutions, suggestions about using the task, characterizing performance descriptions, and scoring information.