FCAT 2.0 Gridding PowerPoint

1. FCAT 2.0 Gridding PowerPoint Orange County Public Schools

2. To Conquer the FCAT PRACTICE! PRACTICE! PRACTICE! Know question formats Avoid common gridding mistakes Practice using the current FCAT 2.0 Reference Sheet and FCAT calculator Daily FCAT 2.0 vocabulary and rigor

3. FCAT 2.0 Question Formats

4. FCAT 2.0 Mathematics Reporting Categories 4

5. Grade 7 Six Column and Negative Grid Types will be used at Grade 7 New New 6 - column Negative

6. Middle School Parts of a Secondary Response Grid

7. 7th & 8th Grades Answer boxes Fraction bar Decimal point Number bubbles New Negative sign

8. How to Complete the Response Grid • Print your answer with the first digit in the left answer box. Do NOT leave a blank answer box in the middle of an answer. • Be sure to write a decimal point or fraction bar in the answer box if it is a part of the answer. • Work the problem and find the answer. • Write your answer in the answer boxes at the top of the grid.

9. How to Complete the Response Grids • Fill in one and ONLY one bubble for each box. • Do NOT fill in a bubble under an unused box. • Fill each bubble by making a solid black mark • that completely fills the circle. • You MUST fill in the bubbles accurately to receive credit for your answer. • Fill in a bubble under each box in which you wrote your answer.

10. How to complete a negative grid No numbers are placed in the 1st column. If the answer is not negative, Do NOT bubble in the 1st column. Leave it blank. If the answer is negative, print only a negative sign in the 1st column. After the 1st column fill in a bubble under each box in which you wrote your answer. Fill in one and ONLY one bubble for each box. Do NOT fill in a bubble under an unused box. Fill each bubble by making a solid black mark that completely fills the circle. You MUST fill in the bubbles accurate to receive credit for your answer.

11. Simplifying and Rounding Issues Simplifying--- We recommend: Do not simplify fractions UNLESS the directions tell you to simplify to lowest terms OR if the answer doesn’t fit in the grid unless you simplify it. Rounding--- We recommend: Don’t round UNLESS the directions tell you to do so.

12. Examplesof Gridding

13. Gridding a Whole Number 60 27 + 33 = 6 0 6 0 or

14. Gridding a Decimal . . 5 8 5 8 7 7 0 or

15. Gridding a Fraction / 3 5

16. What to do with a mixed number... You can NOT write a mixed number in an answer grid. If your answer is a mixed number y you must convert it to: Ex: . / 4 2 5 6 2 5 1 6 4 Improper Fraction Decimal or

17. Be aware…………………… incorrect 6 1 / 4

18. Gridding Percents What percent of 100 is 9? Answer: 9% incorrect incorrect . 9 9 0 9 / 1 0 0

19. Gridding Repeating Decimals…….. Answer: 5.3333333 Incorrect Correct . . 5 3 3 5 3 3 3

20. Grid the answer 4.666666 Correct Correct . 6 4 6 6 6 . 6 4 6 6 7 OR

21. Using a Negative Grid Answer:-9.337 Correct - 9 . 337

22. Using a Negative Grid Answer: 6.239 Correct Correct Incorrect . . . 6 2 3 9 6 2 3 9 6 2 3 9

23. Examples of Common Gridding Errors

24. The answer is 4 8 7 Can you find the error? / 7 4 8

25. Can you find the error? The answer is 36.04 0 4 6 3

26. Can you find the error? The answer is 519 5 1 9

27. The answer is Can you find the error? 39.7 . 7 9 3

28. The answer is 62% Can you find the error? 2 6

29. The answer is 74 Can you find the error? 4 7

30. Can you find the error? The answer is 3.66666666 . 7 3

31. Can you find the error? The answer is -12.69 -1 2 .69

32. The answer is Can you find the error? 5 4 3 . 0 34.50

33. The answer is Can you find the error? 23.7 2 3 . 7

34. Summary of Common Gridding Mistakes Adding extra zeros Bubbling more than one number in a column Adding unnecessary spaces Forgetting to bubble Omitting the decimal point Gridding mixed numbers incorrectly Gridding percents incorrectly Adding extra symbols outside/inside of the grid When using negative grids, writing a number in the 1st column