Number Agility Groupings

The Number Agility level groupings are aligned to the British Columbia curriculum. Levels one and two encompass the early years, students in their preschool years on average from ages 2-4. The primary levels support students who are beginning formal math instruction in kindergarten through grade two. Intermediate is for students in grades three, four and five who are moving beyond base ten numeration into fractions and decimals. The middle years levels are for students in grades six through nine, at these levels students are beginning to work with ratios, percentages, negative integers, radicals, and roots as well as irrational numbers.

Skills Being Assessed

Students will be assessed in each of the domains of number sense to ensure overall proficiency with numbers. While many perceive a young child’s ability to recite numbers in order as being numerate, they are not truly understanding the content unless they can correctly link the numbers, they are reciting with objects demonstrating one to one correspondence. As number sense is multi-faceted, students must be proficient in all its domains counting, representing, place value and number relationships to be numerate and able to manipulate numbers effectively for calculations. Much like we cannot assume a student is capable of decoding texts because they know their letters we cannot assume a student has number sense because they can identify numbers into the thousands or name fractions. What a student does with their number sense and how they apply it is the most important factor. While some tasks in the assessment deal with recognizing and identifying numbers, many more assess a student’s ability to apply their knowledge.