Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Radius of a Cylinder
Given the height and volume of a certain cylinder, Jill uses the volume formula to compute its radius. If a second cylinder has the same volume as the first, but is 100 times taller, what is its radius? Aligns with A-SSE.A.1.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse the Physics Professor
In this task, students are asked to study the structure of an algebraic expression, draw conclusions, and explain their thinking. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1 and A-SSE.A.1.b.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Mixing Fertilizer
A landscaping company prepares two mixtures of fertilizer. In this task, students investigate what happens to the value of an expression when a quantity is changed. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1 and A-SSE.A.1.b.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Delivery Trucks: Assessment Variation
This is an assessment task that has students look for structure in algebraic expressions related to the context of trucks delivering concrete blocks and asks them to relate that structure to the context. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1 and...
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Throwing Horseshoes
This task about the height of a horseshoe in flight requires learners to identify expressions as sums or products and interpret each summand or factor. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Delivery Trucks
This task asks students to analyze four expressions to determine what each represents in terms of the problem's context, which is about two trucks delivering different amounts of sand in different numbers of trips. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1...
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Animal Populations
In this task, students have to interpret expressions involving two variables in the context of a real-world problem about animal populations. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1, A-SSE.A.1.a, and A-SSE.A.2.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Mixing Candies
This task about a box of chocolates has students use the given equations to answer questions about weight and price, as well as interpret the expressions in the equations. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1 and A-SSE.A.1.a.
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Seeing Dots
The purpose of this task is to identify the structure in the two algebraic expressions by interpreting them in terms of a geometric context, a series of squares filled with dot arrangements. Learners are asked to notice a pattern and...
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Quadrupling Leads to Halving
This question provides learners with an opportunity to see expressions as constructed out of a sequence of operations: first taking the square root of a denominator, then dividing the result of that operation into the numerator. Aligns...
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Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Profit of a Company, Assessment Variation
This is an assessment task that examines students' understanding of how to interpret the structure of expressions. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1 and A-SSE.B.3.