Bridge the Gap Math • Grades 1–5

Find out where each student's money, time and measurement gaps begin.

Five free diagnostics for 1st through 5th grade: money, time, measurement, line plots and graphs, and geometry. Give one in your small group, score it in minutes, and you'll know which level each student needs to start on.

Sound familiar?

You're teaching elapsed time to your 3rd graders. One student still can't read the clock to the minute. Another counts every coin as one because she doesn't know a quarter is worth 25 cents. A third lines up his ruler at the 1 instead of the 0. They're all in the same lesson, but they're each missing something different, and these are the skills that get skipped when the year gets busy.

That's why I made these diagnostics. Each one checks every level of the skill, four questions at a time, so you can see the exact spot where a student gets stuck. No guessing, and no reteaching a whole unit to reach a few kids.

What's in the free pack

One diagnostic for each Volume 3 topic. Every one comes with How to Use and How to Score pages, a student scoring sheet, a class placement record, and an answer key. There's also a class snapshot page so you can see all five topics for your whole class at once.

Money

From naming coins all the way to multiplying and dividing money.

Time

From telling time to the hour all the way to elapsed time word problems.

Measurement

From comparing lengths all the way to multi-step conversions.

Line Plots & Graphs

From reading a picture graph all the way to solving fraction problems with line plot data.

Geometry

From counting sides and corners all the way to the coordinate plane and the shape hierarchy.

How it works

Give the diagnostic

Students start at Level 1 and keep going. It's okay for them to skip a problem they haven't learned yet. Most finish in 20 to 30 minutes.

Score it

Use the answer key and the How to Score page. The first level where a student gets 2 or fewer right is where they start.

Group and teach

Add each student to the class placement record. Students who start at the same level make a ready-made small group.

Stars, not grade levels.

Every page shows the level with stars, so a 4th grader working on 2nd grade skills sees ★★ instead of "2nd grade." No one feels behind, and every student can see how far they've come.

Hi, I'm Ashley!

I'm a classroom teacher and the creator of Teaching with Glitter and Gold. Bridge the Gap started in my own 4th grade small group, when some of my students were missing skills from two or three grades back and I didn't know how far back to go.

So I mapped out every skill from 1st to 5th grade, one level at a time. These diagnostics are the first step of that system, and I want you to have them for free.

Get your free Volume 3 diagnostics

Five diagnostics, scoring sheets, class records, and answer keys. Print them today and know where to start tomorrow.

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