MATHEMATICS PERFORMANCE TASKS
TASK 11
Shopping Bags
Strand: Measurement
Objective: This problem gives students the chance to:
work with standard units in the customary system.
Task Overview: Recently, there has been a ban on single
use plastic bags in Jamaica. The supermarket’s shopping
bags can only carry 5 kg of goods. Akeima’s mother has
asked her to shop at the local supermarket.
Here is Akeima’s shopping list.
Item Weight
2 boxes laundry detergent 4kgs
10 doz oranges 2kgs
2 tubes toothpaste 1 kg
3 pineapples 3kgs
3 bottles liquid soap 2kgs
1 book 1kg
6 paper tissues 1kg.
Akeima has two shopping bags. She has already put her laundry detergent in one bag and
her oranges in the other.
MATHEMATICS PERFORMANCE TASK 32 CHRISTIE WAINWRIGHT
Perormance Task - Shopping ags