TASK 18
Improving Our School
Overview: Students will be asked to solve some constructed response
questions involving multiplication and division of whole numbers andor
fractions in part one of the task. In part two, students will critique a student
work sample and explain why the problem was solved incorrectly.
A class of sixth graders wanted to improve the look of their school. They
cleaned up garden planters and planted rose bushes, working in 3 smaller
groups.
Part 1
1. The class was given of the large planter at the school to clean up and
plant flowers, so each group had to share the equally. Draw a picture
and write an equation to show how much of the each group would be
working on, then solve.
MATHEMATICS PERFORMANCE TASKS 63 Christie Wainwright