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Student confidence and competence will soar with these low-prep math performance tasks! Math performance tasks give students the opportunity to use problem-solving skills that prepare them for the real world. The tasks in this bundle also prepare students for success with the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP), the State of Texas Assessme

The purpose of the Middle School SBAC Performance Task Bundle is to familiarize students with math performance tasks in preparation for standardized testing. This bundle includes 26 tasks, with six versions of each task. Each task covers 6th, 7th, & 8th Grade Common Core Standards with a multitude of applications. You can use these as class activities, proficiency practice, or quizzes. These tasks provide excellent practice for STARR testing and other state exams. As a bonus for purchasin

Watch your students dive into the world of math as they create, execute, and analyze their own survey! Students will demonstrate mastery of data gathering, survey sampling, developing appropriate survey questions, data tables, Direct Variation, discrete graphs, dot plots, box and whisker graphs, and calculating the inter-quartile range. The Unique Survey Project is highly engaging, capitalizing on the innate curiosity of the adolescent mind. You will love the low-prep instructional guide. Your s

The purpose of the Fun with Ratios Activities Bundle is to give students the opportunity to use creativity to apply ratios, proportions, and percentages in real-world settings. This bundle includes three unique tasks: Black Friday Mastery Task, Direct Variation Poster Mastery Task, and the Unique Survey Project. These activities and their accompanying materials are suited for students in grades 7 through 9. These lessons make excellent sub plans. Each project takes approximately two 60-minute bl

Student interest will soar as they use measures of center to make vacation decisions at Sky High Trampoline Gym. Students will find the mean, median, mode, and range of the vacation data using tables and dot plots, and then analyze their findings in this real-world scenario. With six low-prep versions of the task, your students will soon be confident and competent in using expressions & equations to find real-world solutions. The following downloads are included with this product:Instructi

Statistics come alive with this differentiated, student-led activity! The Pet Rock Activity & Task gives students an opportunity to gather, organize, and analyze random data. Students get creative while personalizing their own Pet Rock. Data from individual rocks is then measure, shared, compiled, analyzed, graphed, and displayed. Students will: Create a pet in the Pet Rock Activity.Use precision to weigh the rocks and record the data.Construct a graphical display of the data.Calculate numeri

Vault student engagement with this math task focused on finding the measure of center. Students will use raw data to find the mean, median, mode, and range and then arrange the given data in a histogram to model conclusions. With six low-prep versions of the task, your students will soon be confident and competent in using expressions & equations to find real-world solutions. The following downloads are included with this product:Instructions for teachersOlympic Gymnasts Statistics Math Perf

Ignite statistical curiosity with this math task focused on data centers, graphs, and numerical distributions. Students will use data to determine the social media preferences of their survey sample by finding the centers of the data and comparing that data using dot plots and box-and-whisker graphs. With six low-prep versions of the task, your students will soon be confident and competent in using expressions & equations to find real-world solutions. The following downloads are included wit

The purpose of the Snowfall – SBAC Performance Task is to familiarize students with math performance tasks in preparation for standardized testing. This task has a multitude of applications. There are six versions of the task, each has the same context but different numbers. You can use these as class activities, proficiency practice, or quizzes. These tasks provide excellent practice for STARR testing and other state exams. This task gives students an opportunity to graph, evaluate and anal

Da Vinci Projects combine ingenuity, math, and art. Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the greatest minds that ever lived. He is famous for his art, but he was also one of the most prolific inventors and mathematicians of the Renaissance Era. Da Vinci Projects require students to create something wholly original, complete rigorous mathematics, and use art as a part of their creation or an example of their understanding. The purpose of this Da Vinci project is to allow students the opportunity to use c

Don’t let probability bully your students! The Mosaic Probability Math Task provides practice with the likelihood of events, predicting the probability of chance events, developing probability models, and finding the probability of compound events. With six low-prep versions of the task, your students will soon be confident and competent, and your classroom will be a bully-fee math zone! The following downloads are included with this product: Instructions for teachersMosaic Probability – Math

Launch student interest with this math task focused on the latest trend in math performance tasks. Students will demonstrate competency in two areas: statistics proficiency with relative frequency, and geometry skills with area, volume, and capacity. Students will develop, describe, and create a frequency table and then calculate the relative frequency of the statistical winner. Students will then calculate a room's area to determine volume and capacity. With six low-prep versions of the task,

Da Vinci Projects combine ingenuity, math, and art. Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the greatest minds that ever lived. He is famous for his art, but he was also one of the most prolific inventors and mathematicians of the Renaissance Era. Da Vinci Projects require students to create something wholly original, complete rigorous mathematics, and use art as a part of their creation or an example of their understanding. The purpose of this Da Vinci project is to allow students the opportunity to use c

The Bucketball Experiment Activity & Task gives students an opportunity to practice gathering random data, organizing that data into a table, and then determining the relative frequency of the data in a context that is fun and personal. This activity/task has two parts. First students participate in the Bucketball Experiment Activity and record their raw data. Once that is completed and shared between teams, students will partner up to complete the second part, Bucketball Experiment Task. Thi