Examples of these items are the tasks Function, Rectangle and Difference, shown on the next page. Each item was constructed according to Topic Areas and the Types of Mathematical Modeling required.
The Topic Areas
were: Arithmetic, Algebra, and Geometry. The Modeling Types were: Technical
Processing, Numerical Modeling, and Abstract Modeling. The Technical
Processing dimension requires students to carry out operations that have been
rehearsed such as computing numerical results using standard procedures