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Students show fractions on a number line and on the side of a milk bottle.

Students cut out and attach fractions onto a number line in order from smallest to largest.

Students share out sets of counters into equal-sized groups.

Students explore the concept of equality by deciding whether addition sentences are true, false or not proper number sentences.

Students answer maths problems involving multiplication and show their strategies.

Students measure images of objects on a centimetre ruler.

Students interpret distance-time graphs that show a car's movement and draw their own graph from given statements.

Students complete a diagram to show basic fractions of a journey to school in order from smallest to largest.

This task assesses close reading and making inferences about the setting, backdrop, props, costumes, and acting required in a performance of the Junior Journal play "Too Much Noise".

Task: Match birds and nests, and explain why the choice was made. Assessment focus: using environmental cues to make inferences.

Task: Students explain six things that would be needed to develop and maintain an offshore island habitat for endangered birds. Assessment focus: identification of needs of endangered birds.

Task: Look for the similarities and differences in leaf patterns to answer questions about observations and evidence.

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to use evidence from the poem to work out what it could be describing. SJ-4-1-2002. Text provided.

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to use evidence from the poem to work out what it could be describing. SJ-3-1-2004. Text provided.

Task: Students give oral explanations about how the features of a wētā or a mallard duck help it survive in its environment. Peer assessment sheets are included. Assessment focus: structure and function.

Students interpret and answer questions from a bus timetable including some time calculations.

Task: describe what would happen to four items of food when left in the sun. Assessment focus: change.

Task: Identify the variables for testing how fresh water and salt water affect rusting. Assessment focus: planning a fair test.

Students read about a visit to the islands of Kiribati by a New Zealand flight inspection team to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

A recount about a whale watch is the context for comprehension questions that require making inferences. The recount is reproduced in the resource. SJ-1-1-1998. Text provided.

Task: Complete a drawing of things found in a garden, and describe relationships between them. Assessment focus: interdependence in a garden.

Students use percentages to calculate heights of a building from the total height. They then explain how to calculate another percentage.

Students convert heights of a building into the percentage of the given total height, explaining how they solved some conversions. Assessment focus is on how they calculate these heights and what strategies they use.

Students show how they solve equal sharing problems.

Students respond to and give directions about a simple path on a map involving right or left turns.