Performance Tasks

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to solve a real-world problem that involves rates of change. In particular, it will help you assess how well students are able to create, compare, and evaluate different representations of functions.

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

• Interpret speed as the slope of a linear graph.
• Translate between the equation of a line and its graphical representation.

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. Explore the effects of systematically varying the constraints.
• Interpret and
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

• Find the slopes and equations of linear graphs defined by pairs of coordinates.
• Calculate the slope and y-intercept of a straight line.
• Use the slope and y-intercept of
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

• Use the area of right triangles to deduce the areas of other shapes.
• Use dissection methods for finding areas.
• Organize an investigation systematically and collect data.
• Deduce a
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

• Estimate lengths of everyday objects.
• Convert between decimal and scientific notation.
• Make comparisons of the size of numbers expressed in both decimal and scientific notation.