MATHEMATICS PERFORMANCE TASKS
TASK 16
Filing Cabinets
Strand: Number
Objective: This problem gives students the chance to:
use fractions, decimals and percent in a real situation.
Task Overview: For the past eight years Mt. Zion
Primary School keeps student records in drawers in a
big filing cabinet like this
This filing cabinet takes up too much space, so the school clerical assistant and some of
the grade five students are using the summer holiday to put the data onto a computer. As
they complete each drawer they put a smiley sticker onto the drawer.
Task 1: What fraction of the cabinet has she completed? _______ Write this as a decimal.
Show your working
MATHEMATICS PERFORMANCE TASK 45 CHRISTIE WAINWRIGHT
Perormance Task - Filing Cabinets