TEXES PPR EC-6 FINAL EXAM STUDY
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1. self-directed learning - ANSWER ✔ the process of gradually shifting
responsibility for learning to the students through activitities that engage
them in increasingly complex patterns of thoughts
2. student centered - ANSWER ✔ focused on all students
3. student ownership - ANSWER ✔ taking control of the learning process
4. summative assessment - ANSWER ✔ formal or informal evaluation
occurring at the end of the unit of study
5. synthesis - ANSWER ✔ higher level thinking that requires putting pieces
together to form a whole
6. teacher bias - ANSWER ✔ expectations or abilities of students based on
some outward appearance
7. teacher centered - ANSWER ✔ traditional teaching style in which teachers
make all of the decisions focusing on the subject
,8. technology - ANSWER ✔ any device used to complete an objective or task
(not exclusively computers)
9. terminology - ANSWER ✔ vocabulary of technical terms used in a
particular field
10.validity - ANSWER ✔ the extent or degree to which an assessment tool
measures what it is supposed to measure
11.vicarious learning - ANSWER ✔ learning by watching someone else,
without direct experience
12.What skill is covered at all levels of social studies instruction, according to
the TEKS? - ANSWER ✔ critical thinking
Critical thinking is taught in various ways and at varying levels throughout
all Socials Studies instruction.
13.Which of the following terms should a teacher use in a lesson introducing
the concept of market economies? - ANSWER ✔ law of supply
Supply and demand are essential concepts to the understanding of market
economies.
14.For which of the following reasons would a teacher use a population
pyramid, like the one above? - ANSWER ✔ to show the distribution of
population based on age in the United States
The graph shows the distribution of a population based on age.
,15.A third-grade teacher is planning a lesson to help students understand how
the environment impacts human settlement patterns. Which of the following
topics would best serve this goal? - ANSWER ✔ the historical and modern
use of waterways for transportation
One way that the environment can impact settlement patterns is the
importance of access to water. In this case, the focus is on using waterways
for transportation, which can incorporate migration, trade, and other forms
of interaction between groups.
16.A second-grade teacher is planning a lesson to review three-dimensional
shapes. Students have already learned the attributes of three-dimensional
shapes and the necessary vocabulary, such as faces, edges, and vertices.
Which of the following questions could the teacher include in her lesson that
would be most likely to encourage higher-order thinking? - ANSWER ✔ A
3D shape has at least one face that is a rectangle. What are some of the 3D
shapes that it could be?
This question encourages students to think about 3D shapes in a different
way. Students are using higher-order thinking skills to visualize the
rectangular face and evaluate the possible 3D shapes that it could be.
17.Mr. Habib bought 8 gifts. If he spent between $2 and $5 on each gift, which
is a reasonable total amount that Mr. Habib spent on all of the gifts? -
ANSWER ✔ $32
Mr. Habib spent at least $16 and at most $40: $16 if every gift cost exactly
$2 and $40 if every gift cost exactly $5. So only amounts within this range
are reasonable.
18.Tom wants to mentally calculate a 20% tip on his bill of $40. Which of the
following is best for Tom to use in the mental calculation of the tip? -
ANSWER ✔ 40 × .1 × 2
Tom can quickly find 10% of 40 and then double it. In this case the answer
is $8 because 10% of 40 is 4 and 4 × 2 is 8.
, 19.Mrs. Doloff's third-grade class has learned about ordering people according
to age when given a word problem such as "John is older than Mei and Mei
is older than JD. Who is oldest?" What is the next concept for Mrs. Doloff to
teach about ordering? - ANSWER ✔ adding numbers to the problem to
solve for exact age
This is the next step in scaffolded learning.
20.A first-grade teacher is working with a small group of students on skip
counting by tens. The students are able to recite numbers from 10 to 100
while skip counting, but they struggle when asked what ten more than 40 is.
Which of the following strategies would help students improve their
mathematical reasoning skills related to this concept? - ANSWER ✔ Guide
students in highlighting multiples of ten on a number line or hundreds chart
as they skip count out loud.
This gives students a visual representation of what is happening when they
skip count by tens. The students have likely memorized, "10, 20, 30 ... etc."
without understanding what they are actually doing. By highlighting the
numbers on a number line or hundreds chart, students will be more likely to
see that each number is ten more than the one before it.
21.A tennis ball has a diameter of about 3 inches. What is the approximate
volume of a cylindrical container if it holds three tennis balls? - ANSWER
✔ about 64 in³
To find the volume of a cylinder, the B (area of the base) is multiplied by the
height. The tennis ball can is three tennis balls high or about 9 inches. B, the
area of the base, would be the area of the circle with the diameter of the
tennis ball, or 3 inches. If the diameter is 3 inches, the radius would be 1.5
inches and the area would be: B = A of circular base = πr² = π(1.5)² =
π(2.25) ≈ 7.07 in². So, the volume of the cylinder would be: V = Bh ≈
7.07(9) = 63.63 in³. 64 in³ is the best approximate answer to this question.
22.A kindergarten teacher reads the following problem to a student: "Anna has
4 crayons, and her friend gives her 2 more. How many crayons does she
have now?" The student puts out 4 counters, then adds 2 more counters and
GUIDE 2026/2027 ACCURATE QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER ||
100% GUARANTEED PASS
<RECENT VERSION>
1. self-directed learning - ANSWER ✔ the process of gradually shifting
responsibility for learning to the students through activitities that engage
them in increasingly complex patterns of thoughts
2. student centered - ANSWER ✔ focused on all students
3. student ownership - ANSWER ✔ taking control of the learning process
4. summative assessment - ANSWER ✔ formal or informal evaluation
occurring at the end of the unit of study
5. synthesis - ANSWER ✔ higher level thinking that requires putting pieces
together to form a whole
6. teacher bias - ANSWER ✔ expectations or abilities of students based on
some outward appearance
7. teacher centered - ANSWER ✔ traditional teaching style in which teachers
make all of the decisions focusing on the subject
,8. technology - ANSWER ✔ any device used to complete an objective or task
(not exclusively computers)
9. terminology - ANSWER ✔ vocabulary of technical terms used in a
particular field
10.validity - ANSWER ✔ the extent or degree to which an assessment tool
measures what it is supposed to measure
11.vicarious learning - ANSWER ✔ learning by watching someone else,
without direct experience
12.What skill is covered at all levels of social studies instruction, according to
the TEKS? - ANSWER ✔ critical thinking
Critical thinking is taught in various ways and at varying levels throughout
all Socials Studies instruction.
13.Which of the following terms should a teacher use in a lesson introducing
the concept of market economies? - ANSWER ✔ law of supply
Supply and demand are essential concepts to the understanding of market
economies.
14.For which of the following reasons would a teacher use a population
pyramid, like the one above? - ANSWER ✔ to show the distribution of
population based on age in the United States
The graph shows the distribution of a population based on age.
,15.A third-grade teacher is planning a lesson to help students understand how
the environment impacts human settlement patterns. Which of the following
topics would best serve this goal? - ANSWER ✔ the historical and modern
use of waterways for transportation
One way that the environment can impact settlement patterns is the
importance of access to water. In this case, the focus is on using waterways
for transportation, which can incorporate migration, trade, and other forms
of interaction between groups.
16.A second-grade teacher is planning a lesson to review three-dimensional
shapes. Students have already learned the attributes of three-dimensional
shapes and the necessary vocabulary, such as faces, edges, and vertices.
Which of the following questions could the teacher include in her lesson that
would be most likely to encourage higher-order thinking? - ANSWER ✔ A
3D shape has at least one face that is a rectangle. What are some of the 3D
shapes that it could be?
This question encourages students to think about 3D shapes in a different
way. Students are using higher-order thinking skills to visualize the
rectangular face and evaluate the possible 3D shapes that it could be.
17.Mr. Habib bought 8 gifts. If he spent between $2 and $5 on each gift, which
is a reasonable total amount that Mr. Habib spent on all of the gifts? -
ANSWER ✔ $32
Mr. Habib spent at least $16 and at most $40: $16 if every gift cost exactly
$2 and $40 if every gift cost exactly $5. So only amounts within this range
are reasonable.
18.Tom wants to mentally calculate a 20% tip on his bill of $40. Which of the
following is best for Tom to use in the mental calculation of the tip? -
ANSWER ✔ 40 × .1 × 2
Tom can quickly find 10% of 40 and then double it. In this case the answer
is $8 because 10% of 40 is 4 and 4 × 2 is 8.
, 19.Mrs. Doloff's third-grade class has learned about ordering people according
to age when given a word problem such as "John is older than Mei and Mei
is older than JD. Who is oldest?" What is the next concept for Mrs. Doloff to
teach about ordering? - ANSWER ✔ adding numbers to the problem to
solve for exact age
This is the next step in scaffolded learning.
20.A first-grade teacher is working with a small group of students on skip
counting by tens. The students are able to recite numbers from 10 to 100
while skip counting, but they struggle when asked what ten more than 40 is.
Which of the following strategies would help students improve their
mathematical reasoning skills related to this concept? - ANSWER ✔ Guide
students in highlighting multiples of ten on a number line or hundreds chart
as they skip count out loud.
This gives students a visual representation of what is happening when they
skip count by tens. The students have likely memorized, "10, 20, 30 ... etc."
without understanding what they are actually doing. By highlighting the
numbers on a number line or hundreds chart, students will be more likely to
see that each number is ten more than the one before it.
21.A tennis ball has a diameter of about 3 inches. What is the approximate
volume of a cylindrical container if it holds three tennis balls? - ANSWER
✔ about 64 in³
To find the volume of a cylinder, the B (area of the base) is multiplied by the
height. The tennis ball can is three tennis balls high or about 9 inches. B, the
area of the base, would be the area of the circle with the diameter of the
tennis ball, or 3 inches. If the diameter is 3 inches, the radius would be 1.5
inches and the area would be: B = A of circular base = πr² = π(1.5)² =
π(2.25) ≈ 7.07 in². So, the volume of the cylinder would be: V = Bh ≈
7.07(9) = 63.63 in³. 64 in³ is the best approximate answer to this question.
22.A kindergarten teacher reads the following problem to a student: "Anna has
4 crayons, and her friend gives her 2 more. How many crayons does she
have now?" The student puts out 4 counters, then adds 2 more counters and
