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Students use a number line to identify the best answer for addition and multiplication of numbers with fractions.

For this NEMP task students write a thank you letter to the Playground Trust. The letter is assessed on letter conventions, content, and language.

Students estimate a subtraction problem, share their methods, discuss the rounding one number method, and then do more problems by rounding one number.

Students are given an example of ordering adjectives in an advertisement. They use this example to develop a list of adjectives that they order as they create their own advertisement .

Students explain subtraction estimation methods used to solve a word problem.

Assessment focus: insulation.

Students identify the compass direction that describes travel between two towns on a map.

Students use a protractor to locate towns on a map from given compass bearings.

Students use co-ordinates to identify a coded message.

Students draw lines of symmetry on a five sided star.

Students interpret information presented in a pie graph to answer questions.

Students answer questions about place value.

Students read temperatures on thermometers and identify where changes of temperature would be marked.

Students are provided with information about the structure of a haiku poem. They identify the syllables in another haiku poem, and then write their own.

Students work out problems about the weight and price of chocolate bars from some given information.

Students write the next two numbers in each of several number patterns.

Select which materials are transparent, opaque, or translucent. Assessment focus: vocabulary of a material property.

Students answer 2 multiple choice questions about condensation. The assessment focus is on identifying where the condensation has come from.

Students prepare a 2 to 3 minute speech to inform, persuade, or entertain. A list of topics suitable for Year 7/8 students is provided. Assessment guides A and B are suitable for this task.

Task: Describe where water goes when washing is drying and from a swimming pool, and discuss factors that affect this process. Assessment focus: evaporation.

Students suggest why two girls of the same weight go down a slide at different speeds, and then identify the forces acting on the girls. The assessment focus is on the forces of gravity and friction.

Task: answer questions about classification of a platypus. Assessment focus: classification features of mammals.

For this NEMP task students interpret a table of Olympic 1500-metre times, identifying fastest and slowest times.

This resource is a listening task with an assessment focus on identifying information from a weekly weather and snow report.

For this NEMP task students represent the number six in ten different ways using the four arithmetic operations.