Illustrative Mathematics
"Overview: This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important aspects of the task and its...
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Busy Day
"Overview: This task provides a good entry point for students into representing quantities in contexts with variables and expressions and building equations that reflect the relationships presented in the context. Subje...
Comparing Freezing Points
"Overview: This task is appropriate for assessing student's understanding of differences of signed numbers. Because the task asks how many degrees the temperature drops, it is correct to say that ""the temperature drops...
7.RP Art Class, Assessment Variation
"Overview: This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that address...
A-Rei Springboard Dive
"Overview: The problem presents a context where a quadratic function arises. Careful analysis, including graphing, of the function is closely related to the context. The student will gain valuable experience applying the...
Comparing Fractions with a Different Whole
"Overview: This task is meant to address a common error that students make, namely, that they represent fractions with different wholes when they need to compare them. This task is meant to generate classroom discussion...
Comparing Fractions
"Overview: The purpose of this task is for students to compare fractions using common numerators and common denominators and to recognize equivalent fractions. Subject: Mathematics, Numbers and Operations Level: Upper P...
7.RP.3 Lincoln's math problem
"Overview: This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that address...
A-REI Who wins the Race?
"Overview: This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that address...
Bus and Car
"Overview: This task operates at two levels. In part it is a simple exploration of the relationship between speed, distance, and time. Part (c) requires understanding of the idea of average speed, and gives an opportunit...
Comparing Exponentials
"Overview: This task gives students an opportunity to work with exponential functions in a real world context involving continuously compounded interest. They will study how the base of the exponential function impacts i...
Combined Fuel Efficiency
"Overview: The primary purpose of this problem is to rewrite simple rational expressions in different forms to exhibit different aspects of the expression, in the context of a relevant real-world context (the fuel effici...
7.NS Rounding and Subtracting
"Overview: This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that address...
Color Week
"Overview: The purpose of this task is to help students understand the connection between counting and cardinality. Thus, oral counting and recording the number in digit form are the most important aspects of this activi...
A-REI Visualizing Completion of the square
"Overview: This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that address...
Bundling and Unbundling
"Overview: In this task students determine the number of hundreds, tens and ones that are necessary to write equations when some digits are provided. Students must, in some cases, decompose hundreds to tens and tens to o...
College Athletes
"Overview: n this task, students are able to conjecture about the differences in the two groups from a strictly visual perspective and then support their comparisons with appropriate measures of center and variability. T...
Coffee by the Pound
"Overview: Students are exptected to identify the slope of the line with the unit rate in this real world problem. Subject: Mathematics Level: Middle School Grades: Grade 8 Material Type: Activity/Lab Author: Illustrati...
7.NS Distributive Property of Multiplication
"Overview: This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that address...
A-REI Solving Two Equations in Two Unknowns
"Overview: This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that address...
Coffee at Mom's Diner
"Overview: This task assesses a student's ability to use the addition rule to compute a probability and to interpret a probability in context. Subject: Mathematics Level: High School Grades: Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11,...