FOURTH GRADE TRAINING GUIDE

1994 Mathematics Rubric - Fourth Grade


FORM F

7. What is a decimal number? Use the grid to shade in a part that will halp you explain to your friend what a decimal number is and then write your explanation.

ITEM SCORE SCALE

0 Answer is unresponsive, unrelated or inappropriate. Answer has nothing correct.
1 Answer has something correct. The student attempts to use the grid to show a decimal number or, gives an example of a decimal number with some explanation but the explanation may be sparse or incomplete.
2 Answer uses the grid and provides a brief but correct explanation or, gives an example of a decimal number with a correct explanation which may have minor errors or omissions.
3 Answer is complete and correct. The student gives an example, uses the grid vcorrectly and gives an explanation which includes tenth and/or hundredths.


STUDENT RESPONSES

QUESTION

7. What is a decimal number? Use the grid to shade in a part that will help you explain to your third grade friend what a decimal number is and then write your explanation.


STUDENT RESPONSE NUMBER ONE

A decimal number is an odd number such as the numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, and 29. My friend is not a decimal number.

RUBRIC SCORING

0 -- Answer contains nothing correct.


STUDENT RESPONSE NUMBER TWO

A decmal is a number on a grid that the dot conects the number

RUBRIC SCORING

0 -- Anwer contains nothing correct.


STUDENT RESPONSE NUMBER THREE

1.5, a decimial is like a period. a decimal goes in the middle of the number. For example, one decimal 10

RUBRIC SCORING

1 -- Answer contains something correct. Student gives example of decimal number with some explanation.


STUDENT RESPONSE NUMBER FOUR

A decimal number is a way to have less than 1 or more than 1 without going to the next number.

RUBRIC SCORING

1 -- Answer contains something correct. Student attempts to use the grid with a sparse explanation.


STUDENT RESPONSE NUMBER FIVE

a decimal is a point and a key

RUBRIC SCORING

1 -- Answer contains something correct. Student uses the grid with some explanation given.


STUDENT RESPONSE NUMBER SIX

0.3 3 sections of tens are covered

RUBRIC SCORING

2 -- Answer uses the grid and gives an example with a brief explanation.


STUDENT RESPONSE NUMBER SEVEN

This is a hundreth's board. It has 20 cubes shaded in writing it out in decimals is very simple you just write 0.20. But here's a trick. Say you have 1 filled in a hundreths board, you wouldn't write 0.1 because that is in tens. To write it in hundrethe's you write 0.01. You have zero there because it represents the tens.

RUBRIC SCORING

2 -- Answer uses the grid and gives an example, but has a minor error in referring to the tenths as tens.


STUDENT RESPONSE NUMBER EIGHT

A decimal number is like a number out of another number. for example 40 out of a hundred, 0.40

RUBRIC SCORING

3 -- Answer is complete and correct.