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E14: Best Buy Tickets
Susie is organizing the printing of tickets for a show. She has collected prices from several printers.
Your task is to use graphs and algebra to advise Susie on how to choose the best printer.
(This task is very similar to Printing Tickets, but offers less step-by-step guidance.)
Mathematical Content
This task asks students to select and apply mathematical content from across the grades, including the content standards:
- H.A-CED: Create equations that describe numbers or relationships
- H.F-BF: Build a function that models a relationship between two quantities
- H.M: Model with Mathematics
Note: These references are provisional: we are still developing our critera for consistently linking individual tasks to the CCSS.
MAP Assessment Task Types
- Expert Rich, less structured tasks requiring strategic problem-solving skills as well as content knowledge.
The task types indicate the breadth and depth of CCSS mathematical practices assessed by the task. Novice tasks involve only MP2 and MP6 and do so at a low level. Apprentice tasks add MP3 and MP7 but, because of the guidance within the task, do so at a comparatively modest level. Expert tasks aim to cover the full range of practices.
Note: these task types offer a guide as to how tasks relate to the mathematical practices. We are currently considering whether referencing the specific practices relating to each task would be useful or appropriate.
Resources
Task
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best_buy_tickets.pdf
( 85.2K PDF/Acrobat 07 Apr 2011)
Scoring Rubric
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best_buy_tickets_rubric.pdf
( 80.9K PDF/Acrobat 07 Apr 2011)
Student Work - unscored
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best buy tickets un.pdf
( 171.5K PDF/Acrobat 14 Apr 2011)
Student Work - scored
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best buy tickets sc.pdf
( 308K PDF/Acrobat 14 Apr 2011)
Note: please bear in mind that these prototype materials need some further trialing before inclusion in a high-stakes test.
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