Rigor, Thinking, and Technology

According to the vision statement of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, education systems should pursue measurement of student outcomes that are:

Performance-based

Embedded in curriculum

Based on a common evidentiary model of cognition and learning

Keeping in mind that Performance Tasks are NOT assessments, rather tools to practice thinking and problem solving in more complex ways, analyze the Performance Task for grade 4 maths and reflect on the following:

What core academic concept are students required to master? Of the list of nine 21st Century Skills outcomes, which are students practicing in this task and how do you know? The skill outcomes that the students are practicing in this task would be Information and technology literate because...