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Rationale For Functions Quiz

This assessment is a formative quiz on functions that will be given before a unit test. It consists of 5 questions testing different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, and synthesis. The questions correspond to Common Core standards on interpreting functions and evaluate concepts like function notation, evaluating functions, applying functions to word problems, graphing data sets, and defining functions. The quiz is intended to assess students' understanding of key concepts to help identify strengths and weaknesses before the unit test.

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Rationale For Functions Quiz

This assessment is a formative quiz on functions that will be given before a unit test. It consists of 5 questions testing different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, and synthesis. The questions correspond to Common Core standards on interpreting functions and evaluate concepts like function notation, evaluating functions, applying functions to word problems, graphing data sets, and defining functions. The quiz is intended to assess students' understanding of key concepts to help identify strengths and weaknesses before the unit test.

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Rationale for Functions Quiz

This assessment is formative. It is a post-assessment on the topic of functions. The


students are being tested relevant to the set of Common Core Standards under Interpreting
Functions. The test consists of five questions: three multiple choice, one multi-answer, and one
short answer question. This quiz is being used several days before the students take their unit test
on functions, to assess students' strengths and weaknesses in each section of the chapter.
Students are given questions that correspond one-to-one the first five levels of Bloom's
Taxonomy: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, and synthesis. This is Part 1,
Introduction to Functions.
In the first question, students are asked to identify which set of relations is not a function.
Students are expected to demonstrate the knowledge of the definition of a function. The answer
is B, both by process of elimination and by the recognition that a musician can play more than
one instrument. The Common Core Standard is CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSF.IF.A.1
The second question asks students to evaluate a function at the given values. The
solutions are 0, 1, 57, 5t^2 + 4t, 20a^2 + 8a, 48. Students are being asked to understand what it
means to evaluate a function and how function notation works. When the lesson was taught,
emphasis was placed on students knowing how to read math as a language. The Common Core
Standard is CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSF.IF.A.2
Question 3 tests students at the level of application. The student is given an algorithm and
asked to follow it based on a word problem. What sets it apart from a comprehension problem is
that students are doing more than following a procedure. This is a Combined Work problem. The
student must understand how to plug the numbers into the given equation and then solve. The

pitfall is that the student may give the reciprocal of the answer. This gives me the opportunity to
assess whether they are reading the directions completely. The answer is 2 2/5.
Question 4 assesses the students' analysis skill. The student must graph and make sense
of a data set. The correct answer is 3.5, 6. The question includes a second part where the student
is asked to describe the graph qualitatively. The Common Core Standard is
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSF.IF.B.4
Question 5 is the synthesis question. The student should say something to the effect that a
function is a type of relation, but for certain applications, a member of the domain can apply to
more than one member of the range. One point is given for stating that a function is a relation, a
second point for explaining why not every relation is a function, and a third point is given for an
applicable example. The Common Core Standard is CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSF.IF.A.1

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