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Students are assessed on their ability to identify important information and the main idea of an article about a geologist. Junior Journal 21. Text provided.

Assessment focus: deciding which description of the main idea of an informational text is most appropriate, and justifying their thinking. The text used is about the adaptation of bird's feet to their environment.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to identify important information and establish the main idea of a text. SJ-2-2-2006. Text provided.

Students estimate a division problem, share their methods, discuss the nice numbers and factors method, and then do more problems using nice numbers and factors.

Students decide which children are estimating and which are not, and explain their reasoning.

Students compare the overall distribution of two graphs and describe their reasons.

Students use their knowledge of the fire triangle to identify risk factors for a given scenario, and apply this to their own situation. They use rubrics to rate and improve some of their explanations.

The assessment focus is on students' abilities to identify the details in a text that support a given, main idea.

Students estimate a multiplication problem, share their methods, discuss the rounding method, and then do more estimation problems using rounding.

Students estimate an addition problem, share their methods, discuss the averaging method, and then do more problems using averaging.

Students estimate an addition problem, share their methods, discuss grouping nice numbers, and then do a problem using this method, then design a question showing how it uses the method.

Students estimate an addition problem, share their methods, discuss the front-end method and then do more problems using front-end.

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

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

Students identify the approximate capacities of everyday containers.

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

Students draw in the correct number of blocks needed to balance some scales and write equations for scales that show balance.

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

Students estimate a multiplication problem, share their methods, discuss the front-end method, and then do more problems using front-end.

Students show how to calculate maths problems involving fractions as a part and as a whole.

Students use cuisenaire rods to work out part-whole fraction problems.

Students identify and give rules for when numbers are divisible by three or by nine.

Students answer questions involving adding and subtracting fractions of food.

Students are assessed on their ability to find details and identify the main idea of a narrative about a Cook Island tradition.

Students add and subtract fractions to work out fractions of food.