Performance Tasks

This lesson unit addresses common misconceptions relating to the probability of simple and compound events. The lesson will help you assess how well students understand concepts of:

• Equally likely events.
• Randomness.
• Sample size.

This lesson unit is intended to help students to apply their knowledge of the relationship between the radius and the area of a circle. In particular, students will:

• Sketch and construct loci involving arcs of circles.
• Calculate the area of a circle, given its radius.
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to interpret percent increase and decrease and in particular, to identify and help students who have the following difficulties:

• Translating between percents, decimals, and fractions.
• Representing
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

• Interpret a situation and represent the variables mathematically.
• Select appropriate mathematical methods to use and communicate their reasoning clearly.
• Explore the effects on a
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This lesson unit is intended to help students judge the accuracy of two different approximations to a particular linear relationship. Students will compare two linear functions as approximations to the relationship between Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature and consider under what circumstances...

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to model a real-world situation and compare and critique sample models. In particular this lesson aims to identify and help students who have difficulty recognizing and using proportional relationships.