After flying to two islands, the student has to select the best return trip home as well as which airplane to use to make the flight. A complete flight report including distances, flight times, computations, and explanations of the computations need to be submitted. A scoring guide evaluating the areas of mathematical knowledge, strategic knowledge, and communication is available. This task describes a systematic way to find the number of chocolates in a box of any size. It assesses students' abilities to find and represent number patterns that arise in a geometric context.
Students formulate a general rule from their analysis of patterns.
No pre-assessment activity. Administering the assessment - 45 minutes. Two airlines each offer the same price for a single ticket. Teach airline offers a special deal, though. The task is to decide which airline offers the better deal.