Performance Tasks

This lesson unit is intended to assess students’ understanding of the four quadrants of the coordinate plane, while at the same time introducing them to a mathematical understanding of slope. The task helps students to link their intuitive understandings of steepness to a more precise,...

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

• Select appropriate mathematical methods to use for an unstructured problem.
• Interpret a problem situation, identifying constraints and variables and specify assumptions.
• Work with 2- and
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

• Understand the properties of number operations.
• Substitute integers, fractions, decimals, and negative numbers into inequality statements in order to test their validity.
• Represent
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This lesson unit is intended to help students to:

• State and test mathematical conjectures.
• Understand and use alternative methods of proof.

This lesson unit is intended to help you to assess how well students are able to understand the meanings of the terms ‘Greatest Common Factor’ (GCF) and ‘Least Common Multiple’ (LCM). In particular, the lesson will help you to identify and help students who:

• Confuse GCFs and LCMs.
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This lesson unit is intended to help students to:

• Connect algebraic equations to real-life situations.
• Uncover and address misconceptions concerning the meaning of variables in equations.