MATHEMATICS PERFORMANCE TASKS
TASK 19
Renovations
Strand: Number and Measurement
Objective: Students will calculate area and solve realworld
problems using area and money.
Task Overview: The old building at the back of the
school is badly in need of repair. The HSA President
and the executive members are planning to renovate the
building to accommodate a new music room. There are
15 rooms in the building and the dimensions of the rooms to be redone with tiles are 6
meters long and 4 meters wide. Ted the tile man has 500 one meter square tiles.
Task 1: Explain how you would estimate whether Ted has enough tiles to cover all the
kitchen floors in the entire apartment building.
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Task 2: How many tiles, each measuring 1 square meter, are needed to cover one room
floor? Show your work.
MATHEMATICS PERFORMANCE TASK 52 CHRISTIE WAINWRIGHT
Perormance Task - Renoations