Introduction
What are performance tasks?
Performance tasks are individual or group activities that result in products that can be
used to assess mathematical understanding. Performance tasks may take many forms
and often require students to gather data, to formulate plans, and to use problem-solving
strategies. They may result in oral responses, diagrams, tables, graphs, drawings, or
written explanations that can be used to assess holistically the depth of understanding
and the degree of effort.
Using the performance tasks
Dear Teachers,
As you plan your mathematics lessons, examine the performance tasks to review the
objectives that are being assessed and the types of instructional activity the performance
task expects. During your mathematics instruction, have students participate in learning
activities that are similar in format to the performance tasks.
Hi Students, one of the best aspects of these tasks is the fact that there is no one way to
solve the problems—there are myriad possibilities for tackling them. This means that the
tasks are truly evaluating the thinking that you are engaging in when you review math
and come up with justifications. The math that you will engage in mimics applied
mathematics in real life, professional contexts and everyday occurrences at home, at
school or at play.
All the best as you PREP for PEP
“education
is not lling o a essel
but the
Lighting o a ame
-Socrates