Talk with your child about school, listening carefully, making eye contact, and asking questions to show interest. Use coins to count by twos, fives, and tens. Play simple board and card games that involve taking turns and following rules. Let your child pay for an object and count the change. Encourage your child to explore and explain different ways to solve arithmetic problems, rather than just drilling number facts.
Assessment measures how well students are doing in school.
In addition to giving feedback on students' progress, assessment provides important information to school staff and parents to guide them in helping students meet promotion standards and earn promotion to the next grade. Both are essential to effective instruction, and both focus on what is taught and what students should know and be able to do. The chart below shows the ways second graders are assessed in English language arts and mathematics. Ongoing Assessment uses student work that teachers and students collect in class to measure progress and plan appropriate instruction. Teachers use ongoing assessment to provide students with continuous feedback on their progress.