Performance task examples math

Task Description:

Students use inequality symbols to compare the home town populations of three teams and round population numbers to the nearest hundreds place to determine which team has the greatest combined rounded population.

Insects in Jars

Task Description:

Rounding to the nearest 10, students determine how many insects are let go from glass jars.

Place Value Unit

The Place Value Unit involves understanding and representing the relative position, magnitude and relationships within the numeration system in order to answer questions such as:

• How can you use the additive property of place value (expanded notation) to decompose the number 54,321? (50,000 + 4,000 + 300 + 20 + 1)
  
• How can you use the base ten property of place value to explain the relationship between each of the digits in the number 55,555? (Each number is worth 10 times the number to its right and one-tenth the number to its left.)
  
• How can you use the multiplicative property of place value to describe the meaning of each digit in the number 54,321? (Since the 4 is in the thousands place, multiplying the 4 times 1,000 gives the value of the 4 in the number.)
  
• What other ways can you use ten thousands, thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones to represent a number without changing its value? (Methods might include using objects, pictorial models, and numbers, including non-standard partitioning of the number in a variety of ways.)