Manitoba Report Card Grade Scale Mathematics Achievement Profiles – Grades 1 to 8 
                                                                                                                      Subject Category: Problem Solving 
                                 Category Indicator                                     Extent to which the student is meeting grade-level* learning outcomes across the provincial report card grading scale 
                                                                  Not demonstrated (ND)                       Limited (1)                                Basic (2)                                 Good (3)                        Very good to excellent (4)  
                           Applies a variety of mathematical                                     Requires considerable, ongoing            Requires occasional teacher or            Initiates a strategy to solve a          Initiates a strategy to solve a 
                           processes and strategies                                              teacher support to                        peer support to                           problem, uses a variety of               problem, makes any necessary 
                           appropriate to problem solving.                                         initiate a strategy to solve              use modelled strategies to            strategies and transfers knowledge       changes to the plan, chooses a 
                                                                  Does not yet                       problems                                  solve problems                        and skills to solve problems;            variety of strategies, uses prior 
                                                                  demonstrate the                  transfer knowledge and skills             transfer knowledge and skills         solution may include minor errors        knowledge efficiently and 
                                                                  required understanding             to solve problems                         to solve problems                     and/or omissions.                        accurately to analyze and solve 
                                                                  and application of               describe reasoning, provide               describe reasoning                    Explains and justifies reasoning and     problems; solutions may include 
                                                                  concepts and skills.               justification, and organize              provide justification                 generalizes to similar contexts.         minor errors and/or omissions.    
                                                                                                     thinking                                 organize thinking                                                              Explains and justifies reasoning 
                                                                                                                                           May have computational errors             Thinking is organized.                   and generalizes to other contexts.  
                                                                                                 May have computational errors 
                                                                                                 and/or omissions.                         and/or omissions.                                                                  Thinking is clear, complete, and 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              systematic.  
                           Represents and communicates                                           Requires considerable, ongoing            Requires occasional teacher or            Provides explanations of                 Provides clear and complete 
                           problem solving processes,                                            teacher support to provide                peer support to solve a problem.          strategies, mathematical                 explanations of the strategies, 
                           strategies, and solutions                                             explanations of strategies,               Provides incomplete explanations          representations, and vocabulary          mathematical representations, and 
                              concretely                                                        mathematical representations,             of strategies, mathematical               used in solutions.                       vocabulary used in solutions.  
                              orally                                                            and vocabulary used in solutions.         representations, and vocabulary           Requires occasional prompting for 
                              written                                                                                                     used in solutions.                        clarification.  
                                  pictorials/diagrams 
                                  words 
                                  symbolic/numbers 
                                  graphs/charts 
                          
                         *As developmentally appropriate for the time of year towards attaining end-of-grade academic outcomes or academic outcomes described in an individual education plan. References in the table to 
                         ‘assistance’, etc., do not refer to adaptations defined as ‘a change in the teaching process, materials, assignments or pupil products to assist a pupil to achieve the expected learning outcomes.’ 
                         (www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/specedu/programming/adaptation.html)