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Victoria Bryant, Krista Dancy, Kaitlyn Higgins, Sarah Isenhour, Kristen Pruitt
CI 3030-416
Appalachian State University
Low Cognitve Demand and High Cognitve Demand Tasks
Below are examples of both high and low cognitive demand tasks. Go through and see if you can sort each task by their level of demand. Once you complete the sort, check your answers with the key. There are also copies of this task sort attached if you prefer hard copies.
Tasks below are examples of real students work, but this sort is put together based on "Selecting and Creating Mathematical Tasks: From Research to Practice" by Smith and Stein, 1988
 Task ADescribe your image here. |  Task BDescribe your image here. |  Task CDescribe your image here. |
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 Task DDescribe your image here. |  Task EDescribe your image here. |  Task FDescribe your image here. |
 Task GDescribe your image here. |  Task HDescribe your image here. |  Task IDescribe your image here. |
 Task J |  Task K |  Task L |
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