LEARNING EXERCISES

A. Identify each of the following as restricted (R) or extended (E)

performance task.

R______ 1. From an advertisement or commercial not experienced before, state in writing the
propaganda tactic used.
R______ 2. Flip a coin ten times, make a prediction about what the next ten flips of the coin will
be, and explain how it happened.
E______ 3. Formulate a plan for the economic development of your town and evaluate its
usefulness for the province.
R______ 4. Write a computer program in BASIC that will sort a list of words alphabetically.
R______ 5. Develop a plan for reducing household waste and write a persuasive letter for the
local officials that logically support a self-chosen point of view regarding the issue.

R______ 6. Construct a bar graph about the achievement test of each section.
E______ 7. A number like 12321 is called a palindrome because it reads the same backwards as
forwards. A friend of yours claims that all palindromes with four digits are exactly
divisible by eleven. Are they? Defend your answer.
E______ 8. Write and perform a song.
E______ 9. Show how to adjust the display of a computer screen.
E______ 10. Investigate the presence of mathematics in careers and areas of interest and connect
mathematics to other disciplines and areas of interest.