Performance Tasks

This lesson unit is designed to help students to interpret the meaning of multiplication and division. Many students have a very limited understanding of these operations and only recognise them in terms of ‘times’ and ‘share’. They find it hard to give any meaning to calculations that involve...

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to solve real-life mathematical problems. In particular, students will develop their abilities in the following areas:

• Using proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems.
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to use an approximate mathematical model of a real-world situation and use data to test, critique, and compare models. In particular this unit aims to identify and help students who have difficulty using variables to...

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

• Analyze a realistic situation mathematically.
• Construct sight lines to decide which areas of a room are visible or hidden from a camera.
• Find and compare areas of triangles and
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to interpret frequency graphs that use grouped data and their associated box plots. In particular this unit aims to identify and help students who have difficulty interpreting information from frequency graphs and box...

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

• Perform arithmetic operations, including those involving whole-number exponents, recognizing and applying the conventional order of operations.
• Write and evaluate numerical expressions from
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