Figure 1: Assessment Task Exemplars

Here we set out to show something of the range of tasks designed and developed by the Shell Centre for Mathematical Education for various projects in the US and the UK over the last 25 years.

  1. Animals
  2. Skeleton tower
  3. Cross the Chasm
  4. Sports Bag
  5. Consecutive sums
  6. Traffic Jam
  7. Ponzi Pyramid
  8. Perspectives
  9. Polluted river
  10. Reducing Road Accidents
  11. Smoking
  12. Security camera
  13. Machines
  14. Fly Fast
  15. Oxygen
  16. Table tennis tournament

These tasks were chosen to illustrate a diversity of styles, methodology and topics, including:

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Burkhardt, H. (2009) On Strategic Design. Educational Designer, 1(3).
Retrieved from: http://www.educationaldesigner.org/ed/volume1/issue3/article9