Our real-world tasks provide both teachers and administrators with a way of assessing students' problem-solving and communication skills. Authentic material engages students and promotes reasoning and communication.
4th grade students discuss Exemplars problem solving.
5th grade reflections on Exemplars rubric and problem solving.
4th graders offer advice on problem solving.
News From Exemplars
Rebranding Symbols of Teaching
NPR’s Studio 360 recently took on the challenge and asked a design group, Hyperakt, to formulate a new set of visuals related to who we are as educators and the universe we inhabit. It is imaginative, playful and thought provoking … just like school should be!
Math to the Third Power (Making Math Meaningful!)
Have a student identified as gifted in mathematics? Hmmm, what to do … ? Give more problems? Jump to the next book?
What People Are Saying
This is an excellent resource! Thanks for making it available. Exemplars are a wonderful tool for our highly capable math students. They encourage them to show their work, explain their thinking and label their answers.
C. Hyndman
Enrichment Facilitator
I think the Exemplars are great. My students have really done well with word problems since I have started using some of the Exemplars.
H. Knight
Elementary Teacher