Teacher's Guide

🎯 Purpose: Formative Assessment Through Interactive Practice

This interactive addition game serves as a formative assessment tool that provides valuable data for both teachers and students. Unlike summative assessments, this game offers:

• Real-time feedback: Students receive immediate information about their understanding, allowing them to adjust their thinking and strategies

• Actionable insights: Teachers gain specific data about student performance patterns (first attempt accuracy, persistence, areas of difficulty)

• Low-stakes learning environment: Students can take risks and learn from mistakes without penalty

• Differentiated data: Performance data across four difficulty levels helps identify appropriate instructional next steps

• Progress monitoring: Repeated use over time shows growth and mastery development

👥 Partner Play Options (Collaborative Learning)

To make this game more social and collaborative rather than isolating, try these partner configurations:

• Driver & Navigator: One student operates the device (Driver) while the partner talks through the thinking process (Navigator). Switch roles every 5 questions.

• Think-Pair-Share: Both students solve the problem independently on paper, compare answers, discuss strategies, then submit the agreed-upon answer together.

📋 Arizona Math Standards Addressed

Each level corresponds to grade-level standards:

• Level 1 (Within 5): K.OA.A.5 - Fluently add and subtract within 5

• Level 2 (Within 20): 1.OA.C.6 - Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10

• Level 3 (Within 100): 2.NBT.B.5 - Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction

• Level 4 (Within 1000): 3.NBT.A.2 - Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction

💻 Arizona Educational Technology Standards Addressed

• 1.2.a (Empowered Learner): Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways

• 1.3.a (Empowered Learner): Students use technology to engage in choice-based learning opportunities and demonstrate their learning in various ways

• 1.6.c (Creative Communicator): Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations or models

• 1.6.d (Creative Communicator): Students publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their intended audiences

🌟 Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

• Multiple Means of Representation: Visual number sentences, color-coded feedback, progress indicators, animated elements

• Multiple Means of Action & Expression: Four difficulty levels, second-chance opportunities, scaffolded hints, screenshot-based reporting

• Multiple Means of Engagement: Immediate feedback, positive reinforcement, gamified scoring, visual progress, choice of difficulty level

📱 Game Use Cases

• Math Centers: Independent or partner practice station

• Early Finishers: Enrichment and additional practice activity

• Formative Assessment: Quick diagnostic check to inform instruction

• RTI/Intervention: Targeted skill practice with built-in scaffolding

• Pre-Assessment: Identify student readiness before a unit

• Progress Monitoring: Track growth over time by repeating at intervals

🎮 How the Game Works

• Students select their level (1, 2, 3, or 4)

• Each game presents 10 questions from a bank of 25 (randomized)

• Students receive two attempts per question

• First attempt: Full credit (10 points) if correct

• Second attempt: Half credit (5 points) if correct after hint

• After two attempts: Answer revealed with encouraging feedback

• Continuous score display helps students track progress

• Final report provides detailed performance analysis

📊 Assessment Data Available

Per Game: 10 questions
Question Bank: 25 unique questions per level
Total Available: 100 questions across all four levels

Data Points Collected:

• First attempt accuracy (indicates fluency and automaticity)

• Second attempt success rate (shows ability to self-correct with scaffolding)

• Questions requiring full answer reveal (identifies specific skill gaps)

• Overall percentage and point total

📸 Assessment & Data Collection

The final score report is designed to be screenshot-friendly (no scrolling required). Students can:

• Take a screenshot of their results page

• Submit via their LMS (Canvas, Google Classroom, Schoology, etc.)

• Share with teachers for targeted intervention planning

• Keep in a digital portfolio to track growth over time

✨ Feedback Features

• Specific: Identifies exact errors and provides targeted hints

• Timely: Immediate response after each submission

• Positive: Encouraging language that builds confidence

• Growth-Oriented: Celebrates effort and learning from mistakes

• Actionable: Provides concrete next steps for improvement

👩‍💻 Designer & AI Disclosure

Designer: Dana Leonardo

AI Disclosure: This educational game was designed with assistance from AI technology (Canva Code) to support differentiated math instruction and formative assessment practices.