Eleventh Grade · Math · week 18

Semester assessment and performance task

Demonstrate semester mastery on a mixed assessment and solve a multi-concept performance task.

Assessment week is a measurement, not a judgment -- the same honest, no-notes conditions you would use to measure anything else. Give yourself a genuine mixed review (functions, systems, quadratics, polynomials) under quiet, timed conditions, so the result actually reflects what you know.

The performance task matters just as much as the score: a real problem that only unlocks when two different skills work together. This is where "knowing the steps" becomes "knowing when to use them" -- the actual goal of the whole semester.

📋 For the teacher
Teach it (10–15 min):
  • Build the assessment from this semester's try/homework problems with the numbers changed -- or generate a fresh mixed set -- and keep the conditions honest: timed-ish, no notes, no hovering.
  • Grade together immediately afterward, while the thinking is still warm -- same-day feedback teaches far more than a score returned tomorrow.
  • For the performance task, coach the SETUP, not the arithmetic: what are the two unknowns, and what are the two facts the story gives you about them?
  • Do a real error analysis afterward: for every miss, label it a slip, a procedure gap, or a concept gap -- the label decides the right kind of practice next.
Talk about it:
  • How did naming the two unknowns clearly make the garden problem easier to set up?
  • Which topics from this semester felt automatic on the assessment, and which needed re-derivation?
  • What is the difference between a careless slip and a real concept gap, and why does the difference matter for how you practice?

Mastery looks like: A mixed assessment score of 80% or higher under honest conditions, plus a performance task solved by combining a system with a quadratic and interpreted in a full sentence.

Common stumbles: Skipping the setup step and guessing at an equation; solving the quadratic correctly but forgetting to answer the actual question asked (both dimensions, not just w).

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