Performance Tasks

This lesson unit is intended to help students to:

• Select appropriate mathematics to solve a problem.
• Compare and evaluate different methods for solving a problem and make generalizations about the appropriateness of different approaches.
• Understand the Pythagorean
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students working with square numbers are able to:

• Choose an appropriate, systematic way to collect and organize data, examining the data for patterns.
• Describe and explain findings clearly and effectively.
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how students reason about geometry and, in particular, how well they are able to:

• Use facts about the angle sum and exterior angles of triangles to calculate missing angles.
• Apply angle theorems to parallel lines cut by a
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to select and use mathematical ideas to solve a problem and then compare and critique alternative approaches. The lesson presents students with a distance-time scatter plot representing journeys made by a taxi cab. They...

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to interpret distance–time graphs and, in particular, to help you identify students who:

• Interpret distance–time graphs as if they are pictures of situations rather than abstract representations of them.
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students use algebra to:

• Explore relationships between variables in everyday situations.
• Find unknown values from known values.
• Find relationships between pairs of unknowns and express these as tables and
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