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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.

Students calculate the mean for a set of test scores and identify how changes in the data will effect the mean.

Students present data on the number of chocolate bars sold in a stem-and-leaf graph. The data is then ordered into a second graph.

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

In this practical task, students cut out regular polygons and decide whether that shape will tessellate.

This task requires students to interpret a tree diagram of art materials and identify the number of different possibilities from various combinations presented.

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.

Students calculate different fractions of given whole numbers.

Students match the descriptions: certain, impossible, good chance, poor chance, even chance to a set of probabilities shown as a fraction.

Students select from a range of given numbers to complete a 4 x 4 'number square' with given row and column totals.

Students answer four questions on echoes and sound insulation.

Task: Select the correct reason why a bird on a power line does not get electrocuted and select pictures of danger of electrocution, justifying choice. Assessment focus: understanding of the route taken by electricity/electrocution.

From a collection of familiar objects, students identify all those that can be a source of light. They then explain the term 'source of light'.

Task: Answer two questions about light shades. Assessment focus: reflection.

Task: Describe changes to iron as it is heated or cooled. Assessment focus: changes to metals as they are heated and cooled.

For this NEMP task students draw the other half of a shape by using its line of symmetry.

Students use matchsticks to continue a triangular spatial pattern and write a rule to describe the number needed for each pattern. They then complete a table and a rule to show the relationship between the number of triangles and the number of matchsticks.

Students solve a number of mathematical problems involving money and distance, and compare the results to identify the cheapest taxi company.