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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Buying a Car
"Overview: The emphasis in this task is on the progression of equations, from two that involve different values of the sales tax, to one that involves the sales tax as a parameter. It is designed to foster the habit of l...
Accurately Weighing Pennies II
"Overview: This task is a somewhat more complicated version of ""Accurately weighing pennies I'' as a third equation is needed in order to solve part (a) explicitly. Instead, students have to combine the algebraic techni...
7.RP How Fast is Usain Bolt?
"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...
Comparing Years
"Overview: Many students will not know that when comparing two quantities, the percent decrease between the larger and smaller value is not equal to the percent increase between the smaller and larger value. Students wou...
Accurately Weighing Pennies I
"Overview: This problem involves solving a system of algebraic equations from a context: depending how the problem is interpreted, there may be one equation or two. Subject: Mathematics, Algebra Level: High School Grade...
7.RP Gym Membership Plans
"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...
Buying Protein Bars and Magazines
"Overview: This task requires students to solves multistep ratio and percent problem. Subject: Mathematics Level: Middle School Grades: Grade 7 Material Type: Activity/Lab Author: Illustrative Mathematics Provider: Illu...
7.RP,EE Gotham City Taxis
"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...
Accuracy of Carbon 14 Dating II
"Overview: This task is a refinement of ``Carbon 14 dating'' which focuses on accuracy. Because radioactive decay is an atomic process modeled by the laws of quantum mechanics, it is not possible to know with certainty w...
Comparing Two Different Pizzas
"Overview: The focus of this task is on understanding that fractions, in an explicit context, are fractions of a specific whole. In this problem there are three different wholes: the medium pizza, the large pizza, and th...
Accuracy of Carbon 14 Dating I
"Overview: This task examines, from a mathematical and statistical point of view, how scientists measure the age of organic materials by measuring the ratio of Carbon 14 to Carbon 12. The focus here is on the statistical...
7.RP Dueling Candidates
"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...
Buying Gas
"Overview: There are two aspects to fluency with division of multi-digit numbers: knowing when it should be applied, and knowing how to compute it. While this task is very straightforward, it represents the kind of probl...
Comparing Temperatures
"Overview: The purpose of the task is for students to compare signed numbers in a real-world context. Subject: Mathematics Level: Middle School Grades: Grade 6 Material Type: Activity/Lab Author: Illustrative Mathematic...
Comparing Sums of Unit Fractions
"Overview: The purpose of this task is to help develop students' understanding of addition of fractions; it is intended as an instructional task. Subject: Mathematics, Numbers and Operations Level: Upper Primary Grades:...
Above and Below Sea Level
"Overview: The purpose of this task is to help students interpret signed numbers in a context as a magnitude and a direction and to make sense of the absolute value of a signed number as its magnitude. Subject: Mathemat...
7.RP Double Discounts
"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...
Comparing Speeds in Graphs and Equations
"Overview: This task provides the opportunity for students to reason about graphs, slopes, and rates without having a scale on the axes or an equation to represent the graphs. Students who prefer to work with specific nu...
Comparing Snow Cones
"Overview: Students must calculate the volume of a cone in this real world task. Subject: Mathematics, Geometry Level: Middle School Grades: Grade 8 Material Type: Activity/Lab Author: Illustrative Mathematics Provider:...
Buying Coffee
"Overview: This is a task where it would be appropriate for students to use technology such as a graphing calculator or GeoGebra, making it a good candidate for students to engage in Standard for Mathematical Practice 5...