This document is an overview of the content assessed on the TABE forms 11/12 for Level E, M, and D. It is based on an analysis of the questions on the actual exams, as well as the TABE 11/12 Blueprints and the TABE 11/12 Transition Toolkit for Mathematics.
We hope this document (and later drafts) will be useful to teachers in at least one of the following ways:
- To see connections between the math taught at all levels and the math on the HSE exam
- To better understand what the strands look like for each level of the TABE 11/12 (i.e. What does geometry look like on Level E? Level M? Level D?)
- To have a clear sense of what they want students to be able to do at the end of a lesson. There is a difference between, “Today, I’m teaching fractions” and “By the end of today’s lesson, students will be able to identify equivalent fractions using visual representations”.
- To build coherence between lessons by connecting prior understandings, to what students are doing in our class, to what they will need to understand in the future.
