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For this practical task students write a plan to find out if a microwave has a 'hot spot'. Students carry out their plan, collect, and interpret results.

Students work out how much time some bus trips take.

Students answer questions involving finding how many of one fraction goes into another fraction.

Students explain why a range of students' answers to a maths problem are incorrect.

Task: Design a plant that meets the criteria for a particular environment. Assessment focus: identifying specific features of a plant and explaining how they help it survive in its environment.

Task: Use a diagram and fact file to answer questions about sharks' fins. Assessment focus: adaptations of sharks to facilitate movement in water.

Student solve addition problems where the missing value is located in different positions. This may mean that students transform the problem into a subtraction one. Students reflect on the easiest and hardest problems, and explain their choice.

Students read scales to measure images of objects to the nearest tenth of a centimetre.

Students answer two multichoice questions giving explanations for their choice and two short answer questions.

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 interpret two cartoon-style drawings of the enhanced greenhouse effect and write a short description of the artist’s message, as they see this.

Task: Students answer questions about a soil food web. Assessment focus: reading a food web, systems thinking.

Task: Use evidence to make inferences about how leaves help plants survive in particular environments. Assessment focus: leaf adaptations.

Students calculate fraction division problems and show their working.

Students work out the missing dimension on a rectangle and show how they obtained it using proportional reasoning.

Students show or explain how two different fraction numbers can represent the same fraction.

Students use number properties to solve problems without calculating.

Students identify a correct statement about the overall distribution of a graph and explain their reasoning.

Students formulate questions about glaciers and climate change to show awareness that informed opinions are based on inter-related aspects of evidence rather than individual instances.

Students describe a functional rule for two spatial patterns.

Students complete addition and subtraction equations that explore part-whole relationships.

Students match pictures of objects with a list of capacities involving litres and millilitres.

Students show where different fractions are positioned on a number line.

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

Students measure images of objects on a centimetre ruler.