The text that is read to students is about a household task in Greece. Students listen and then respond to 8 multiple-choice questions. SJ-2-1-1995. Text provided.
Students estimate a subtraction problem, share their methods, discuss the rounding one number method, and then do more problems by rounding one number.
Assessment focus: ability of students to use both knowledge acquired from the text and their own backgrounds. This task assesses student ability to critically engage with media texts.
Task: Students make predictions about evaporation rates of instances where surface areas are a factor, select which variable is being investigated in both examples and explain their answer. Assessment focus: Using knowledge of surface area to make predictions.