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Which is the most appropriate unit to measure length of the average football field? A meters B inches C miles D millimeters - Correct Answer: A If 2.2 lb = 1 kg, and Mary weighs 120 lbs, how much does she weigh in kg? A 120 kg B 60 kg C 264 kg D 55 kg - Correct Answer: D
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Which is the most appropriate unit to measure length of the average football field?
A
meters
B
inches
C
miles
D
millimeters - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ A
If 2.2 lb = 1 kg, and Mary weighs 120 lbs, how much does she weigh in kg?
A
120 kg
B
60 kg
C
264 kg
D
55 kg - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ D
Students in Ms. Weikel's class are having difficulty remembering the metric unit prefixes. What should she do to help them remember the prefixes?
A
Have students write an essay about the origins of the prefixes.
B
Teach students a helpful mnemonic device.
C
Give them a long worksheet with a lot of conversions so they get practice.
D
Give daily quizzes until all students get 100 percent. - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ B
Mr. Grubb is teaching about accuracy and precision. He asks students to write an essay explaining the difference between the two. He gets a couple of essays that are two sentences long. How can he improve this?
A
Require students to write at least two pages.
B
Reprimand the students who did not give enough information in front of the class.
C
Give a rubric which clearly communicates expectations.
D
This is an appropriate amount of information to give. - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ C
Mr. Macdonnel is teaching about elapsed time. He asks students to make a daily schedule and calculate how long they do each activity for the week. Several students list only: sleep, school, and home as their activities. How can he improve this activity in the future?
A
Reprimand the students who did not give enough information in front of the class.
B
This is an appropriate amount of information to give.
C
Give a rubric which clearly communicates expectations.
D
Require students to list at least thirty different activities per day. - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ C
Ms. Netterville wants to find an engaging activity for students to demonstrate their understanding of United States currency. Which of the following activities is likely to be the most engaging and help ensure that all students are meeting the learning objectives?
A
Classwide bingo where she tells students how many of each coin they have and they have to choose the correct dollar amount.
B
Have a head to head competition where students have to calculate the appropriate coins to be given as change.
C
Have students write an essay on the history of the United States mint.
D
Have students run a classroom store where they have to give appropriate change. - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ D
Tia participates in marching band before school and plays volleyball after school. She arrived at school at 6:52am today and did not leave until 5:34pm. How many hours and minutes did she spend on the school campus?
A
11 hours 42 minutes
B
10 hours 42 minutes
C
10 hours 18 minutes
D
11 hours 18 minutes - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ B
Second-grade students, Bryan and Alexander, are working together to count money raised by the school's student council. They know the value of the penny, quarter, and dollar, but they consistently confuse the value of the nickel and dime. How can the teacher address this?
A
Provide word problems that involve money in various denominations.
B
105 meters
C
48 feet
D
1,244 inches - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ B
Becky arrived at her babysitting job Saturday morning at 9:15 am. She left at 1:30 pm. How many hours did she work?
A
4 hours, 15 minutes
B
4 hours, 45 minutes
C
3 hours, 15 minutes
D
3 hours, 45 minutes - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ A
Malik set up a conversion:
3 gallons \times \frac{4 quarts}{1 gallon} \times \frac{2 pints}{1 quart} \times \frac{2 cups}{1 pint}×1gallon4quarts×1quart2pints×1pint2cups
Which of the following conversions is he making?
A
gallons to cups
cups to gallons
C
gallons to pints
D
pints to gallons - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ A
Mr. Muldoon is teaching about converting between metric and English units. One of his students refuses to engage in the activity and states "I am never leaving America so I don't need to learn this." How should he respond?
A
Give him detention.
B
Explain the many ways in which people in America use the metric system.
C
Excuse him from the activity.
D
Give him a zero for participation for the day and call home. - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ B
Ms. Hughes wants students to be familiar with quantities from everyday life. She asks all students to report their height and weight so the class can calculate their mean, mode, and range. What are all of the weaknesses of this approach?
Select all answers that apply.
Histogram
B
Scatterplot
C
Stem-and-Leaf plot
D
Pie Chart - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ D
The debate team has averaged 108 points in the last 5 tournaments. If they scored 120, 98, 92, and 108 in the first 4 tournaments, how many points were scored in the fifth tournament?
A
120
B
124
C
108
D
122 - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ D
Which of the following is true of a statistical experiment?
A
It can have more than one outcome at a time.
B
The possible outcomes are not known beforehand.
C
Its outcome is predetermined.
D
Its outcome is determined by chance. - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ D
Mr. Schmidt is teaching statistics and the data lists are long. Finding the mean would take a long time so he has decided students may bring a calculator from home to use on the unit test. What can he do to ensure that all students have a device?
A
Only allow students with their own device to use it.
B
Require students to borrow from a friend or rent one for the test.
C
Allow students to share devices during the test.
D
Give advance notice to bring calculators and provide devices for those who do not have one. - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ D
A journalist in a town with a population of 15,200 takes a random sample of 200 people and finds that 60 of them read the local newspaper. Based on this sample, which of the following is the best estimate for the number of people in the town that read the local newspaper?
A
Say the words and their definitions slowly, loudly, and repeatedly throughout the lesson.
B
Put the words on a Word Wall with the word, picture, and definition.
C
Teach the class as if all students are fluent in English so the students don't feel different.
D
Give the words and definitions to the students in English and Spanish. - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ B
Students in Mr. Miller's class are given a worksheet with the different combinations that can be reached when flipping a coin and rolling a standard die. Students then work in pairs to flip and roll all of the combinations. What topic is Mr. Miller teaching?
A
sample space
B
probability
C
ratios
D
teamwork - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ A
Rick pulled a card at random from a normal deck, noted it, replaced it, shuffled, and drew again. His draws were as follows: 10, J, 10, K, 1, 2, 6, 10, 11, 4
What is the probability that he will draw a 10 on the next draw?
A
1/
B
1/
C
3/
D
3/10 - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ B
Mrs. Spiser is teaching students about populations and samples. At the start of their lunch period, they are going to the cafeteria to take a randomized survey of how many students bought lunch. They will then compare that to the whole school to determine how many kids buy lunch each day. What should she include in her lesson plan that morning to reinforce the concept?
A
As students enter her room, they randomly draw a red or black card. She teaches the concept by explaining that the school is the population and students who drew a red card are the sample group.
B
As students enter her room, they tell her if they bought lunch yesterday. She teaches the concept by explaining that the school is the population and students who bought lunch yesterday are the sample group.
C
Television watching makes children learn more words.
B
Children who watch more TV have a smaller vocabulary on average than children who watch less TV.
C
Television watching makes children learn fewer words. - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ B
Sally and Susie place 30 white marbles and 9 black marbles in a sack. They play a game where the object of the game is to accumulate more white marbles than the other person. On each turn, a person can take as many marbles as they would like, but if they grab a black marble then they must return all their marbles taken on that turn. On Sally's turn, she picks up 3 white marbles and no black marbles. If Susie grabs one more marble, what is the probability that she will grab a black marble? (Note: Sally has not yet returned her 3 white marbles to the sack.)
A
9 in 39
B
Not enough information
C
1 in 4
D
1 in 3 - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ C
What is the probability that the sum of the two dice is between 2 and 12, inclusive?
A ⅙ B 1 C ½ D
¼ - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ B
In the pair of dice that Tim rolled 25 times, he recorded a sum of 4 on three of those rolls. What is the difference between the theoretical probability and the experimental probability of rolling a pair of dice and getting a sum of 4 based on Tim's experiment?
A
The experimental probability is about 4% greater than the theoretical probability.
B
The theoretical probability is about 8% less than the experimental probability.
C
The experimental probability and the theoretical probability are the same.
D
The experimental probability is 3/25, but we don't know the theoretical probability for Tim's simulation. - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ A
Teach students to underline the confusing words in a question and ask native speakers for clarification.
D
Give students a dictionary to use while solving word problems. - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ A
A teacher is monitoring her class while the students are involved in a group activity exploring the size of angles in a set of triangles. She moves from group to group, pausing and watching the group dynamics. What the teacher is doing can best be described as:
A
informal summative assessment.
B
formal summative assessment.
C
informal formative assessment.
D
formal formative assessment. - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ C
Which of the following best describes a high-stakes assessment, such as state mandated exams?
A
formal summative assessment
B
informal formative assessment
informal summative assessment
D
formal formative assessment - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ A
A student asks a teacher when would knowing the likelihood of a six being rolled on a dice be useful in real life. Which of the following examples would be the most appropriate response for the student?
A
a teacher averaging a student's grade for the semester
B
a farmer measuring the length of the fields to determine area
C
a builder cutting materials for a house
D
a casino estimating the expected number of jackpot payouts over the next fiscal year - Correct Answer: ✔️ ✔️ D
Ms. Miller is a student teacher in a fourth-grade classroom. She has heard that group work is important so she wants to plan for group activities. On her first day student teaching, she briefly says "today we'll be doing group work about fractions" before she sends the students to stations. How could she best improve her teaching?
A
Her lesson plan is effective as it is.
