This resource is a menu of formative assessment clusters for all of the Major Work of Grade 6 created by a group of Utah Mathematics educators.

TuvaLabs Data Stories provide resources for teachers to engage students in rich discourse about an interesting topic and then allows students to come to conclusions using mathematical reasoning and tools.

This three-act math task utilizes videos and questioning to help students explore multiplying and dividing fractions.

Buying a Car: Standard 6.RP.2 Understand the concept of a unit rate a/b associated with a ratio a:b with b ≠ 0, and use rate language in the context of a ratio relationship.
This formative assessment exemplar was created by a team of Utah educators to be used as a resource in the classroom. It was reviewed for appropriateness by a Bias and Sensitivity/Special Education team and by state mathematics leaders. While no assessment is perfect, it is intended to be used as a formative tool that enables teachers to obtain evidence of student learning, identify assets and gaps in that learning, and adjust instruction for the two dimensions that are important for mathematical learning experiences (i.e., Standards for Mathematical Practice, Major Work of the Grade).

Buying a Pet: Standard 6.NS.3 Fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit decimals using the standard algorithm for each operation.
This formative assessment exemplar was created by a team of Utah educators to be used as a resource in the classroom. It was reviewed for appropriateness by a Bias and Sensitivity/Special Education team and by state mathematics leaders. While no assessment is perfect, it is intended to be used as a formative tool that enables teachers to obtain evidence of student learning, identify assets and gaps in that learning, and adjust instruction for the two dimensions that are important for mathematical learning experiences (i.e., Standards for Mathematical Practice, Major Work of the Grade).

This three-act math task utilizes videos and questioning to help students explore unit rate and proportions.

Premade number tents to use clothesline math with simple expressions, rational expressions, equations and sequences.

Find some pre-made number tents for integers and degrees, as well as a blank set of number tents to create your own number tents.

Premade number tents to use clothesline math with linear, exponential and trignometric functions.

Premade number tents to use clothesline math with angle relationships such as vertical, complementary, supplementary and the angles created with parallel lines and a transversal. Premade number tents for recognizing relationships within triangles and polygons.

Want to know how to set up clothesline math in your classroom? Read this post and find a few different methods. Then, choose which one works best for your classroom culture.

Premade number tents to use clothesline math with fractions, integers, roots and exponents.

Concession Stand: Standard 6.NS.2 Fluently divide multi-digit numbers using the standard algorithm.
This formative assessment exemplar was created by a team of Utah educators to be used as a resource in the classroom. It was reviewed for appropriateness by a Bias and Sensitivity/Special Education team and by state mathematics leaders. While no assessment is perfect, it is intended to be used as a formative tool that enables teachers to obtain evidence of student learning, identify assets and gaps in that learning, and adjust instruction for the two dimensions that are important for mathematical learning experiences (i.e., Standards for Mathematical Practice, Major Work of the Grade).

Cookie Fundraiser: Standard 6.NS.1 Interpret & Compute Quotients of Fractions.
This formative assessment exemplar was created by a team of Utah educators to be used as a resource in the classroom. It was reviewed for appropriateness by a Bias and Sensitivity/Special Education team and by state mathematics leaders. While no assessment is perfect, it is intended to be used as a formative tool that enables teachers to obtain evidence of student learning, identify assets and gaps in that learning, and adjust instruction for the two dimensions that are important for mathematical learning experiences (i.e., Standards for Mathematical Practice, Major Work of the Grade).

County Fair: Standard 6.EE.6 (Use variables to represent numbers and write expressions when solving a real-world or mathematical problem; understand that a variable can represent an unknown number, or, depending on the purpose at hand, any number in a specified set.).
This formative assessment exemplar was created by a team of Utah educators to be used as a resource in the classroom. It was reviewed for appropriateness by a Bias and Sensitivity/Special Education team and by state mathematics leaders. While no assessment is perfect, it is intended to be used as a formative tool that enables teachers to obtain evidence of student learning, identify assets and gaps in that learning, and adjust instruction for the two dimensions that are important for mathematical learning experiences (i.e., Standards for Mathematical Practice, Major Work of the Grade).

TuvaLabs Data Stories provide resources for teachers to engage students in rich discourse about an interesting topic and then allows students to come to conclusions using mathematical reasoning and tools.

The Earth Club: Standard 6.RP.1 - Understand the concept of a ratio and use ratio language to describe a ratio relationship between two quantities.
This formative assessment exemplar was created by a team of Utah educators to be used as a resource in the classroom. It was reviewed for appropriateness by a Bias and Sensitivity/Special Education team and by state mathematics leaders. While no assessment is perfect, it is intended to be used as a formative tool that enables teachers to obtain evidence of student learning, identify assets and gaps in that learning, and adjust instruction for the two dimensions that are important for mathematical learning experiences (i.e., Standards for Mathematical Practice, Major Work of the Grade).

Students use a double clothesline to work with algebraic expressions and determining which are equivalent. A different take on evaluating expressions. Students need to use their critical thinking skills.

This is a three act task where students are asked to determine a relationship between the rate of a ferrari and the length of a rope.

Use this three act task to get students thinking about surface area. Extend the task to create a method/formula for surface area of a prism.