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SNAP: Student Numeracy Assessment and Practice @ Learn 71
What is SNAP?
The Student Numeracy Assessment and Practice (SNAP) is designed to provide teachers, schools and districts with meaningful, formative information about student numeracy development. This assessment tool guides instruction and supports learning and does not focus on measuring outcomes. SNAP is intended to capture students' mathematical thinking processes, strategies and conceptual understanding.
Why is Comox Valley School District collecting Gr 3 and 5 SNAP data?
-To support responsive teaching
-To build consistence and equity across schools
-To track growth over time
-To empower professional learning communities
-To strengthen communication with families and students
SNAP data provides rich, formative evidence that supports reponsive teaching, equitable practice, professional collaboration, and student growth. SNAP aligns with the broader goal of developing numerate, flexible and confident problem-solvers.
What happens to the data?
Teachers use the assessment to guide planning, course design, next steps recommendations (F2F and home learning) with the goal of supporting student learning
NIDES uses data to inform decisions around providing support for programs, teachers, and students in the form of resources, professional development, collaboration, etc.
The district gathers anonymous data (see form on the right). This yearly check-in will help to be responsive to educational needs around numeracy for students and teachers (see details above)
Learn 71 Numeracy Assessments (November):
Grade 3 (End of Grade 2 SNAP numbers to 100)
Grade 5 (End of Grade 4 SNAP numbers to 10000)
Practice Tools:
SNAP Practice Resource with Math Talks and Exploration Stations
Zoom into SNAP Practice (Communicating and Representing; Understanding and Solving; Connecting and Reflecting; Reasoning and Analyzing)
Assessment Tools:
Grade 3 (end of Grade 2) Rubric (use number 67, count forward by 10, backwards by 2)
Grade 5 (end of Grade 4) Rubric (use number 6138, count forwards by 300, backwards by 25)
Exemplars Grades 2-7 (look at Grade 2 for beginning of Grade 3; Grade 4 for beginning of Grade 5)
After you complete the assessments, see these next steps ideas for learners who are emerging/developing, developing/proficient, proficient/extending.
Island Numeracy Network also has resources to support numeracy assessment and practice
PDF with practice organizers focusing on each part of the SNAP - Thank you, Nick Glomb!
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