The Early Math Assessment @ School (EMA@School) is a numeracy screener that was designed to identify students in kindergarten to grade 3 who are underachieving relative to their peers. For students in grades 2 and 3, it includes four foundational skills: number comparison, writing numbers from dictation, placement of numbers on a 0-1000 number line, ordering numbers. It also includes one mathematical outcome: arithmetic fluency.<\/p>\n
Comparing Numbers Subtask:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Measures how quickly and efficiently students can compare magnitudes. Students were instructed to cross out the larger digit of a pair of digits (e.g., which is larger, 4 or 7?).<\/p>\n Writing Numbers Subtask:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Assesses students\u2019 abilities to translate between verbal number words and Arabic numerals; also known as \u2018transcoding\u2019. Students were asked to write down a total of 13 numerals as teachers read them aloud.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Numbers on the Number Line\u00a0Subtask:<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n Used to assess students’ estimation accuracy when placing a target number along a number line ranging from 0-1000. This measures students\u2019 understanding of ordinal relations among numbers (i.e., 5 comes after 4 and before 6) and their proportional reasoning skills (i.e., 75 is three-quarters of 100 so one must divide the number line into fourths).<\/p>\n Ordering of Numbers Subtask:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Measures how quickly and efficiently students can judge whether three-digit number sequences are increasing in order (e.g., is 2, 4, 6 in ascending order?). Students were instructed to draw a check mark beside the sequence if the numbers were all increasing, or an X if the numbers were not all increasing.<\/p>\n Number Facts Subtask:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Assesses students\u2019 abilities to solve addition and subtraction facts to 18 (e.g., 2 + 3, 12 \u2013 6).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Early Math Assessment @ School (EMA@School) is a numeracy screener that was designed to identify students in kindergarten to grade 3 who are underachieving relative to their peers. For students in grades 2 and 3, it includes four foundational skills: number comparison, writing numbers from dictation, placement of numbers on a 0-1000 number line, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"yoast_head":"\n