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Students read a personal recount about family relationships in a Pacific context. Assessment focus: the author's construction of two characters and an evaluation of them.

The assessment focus is on the features of an explanation. Students explore and write an explanation of the impacts the food industry could have on improving health.

Students count the number of pairs thrown in a series of throws of three dice to evaluate the long-run relative frequency of getting a pair.

Students calculate the repair charges for two different washing machine repair companies, and compare and explain their results.

This transactional writing resource requires students to express their views about organ donation.

Students show how to solve a series of algebraic expressions by substituting given numbers.

Students read a narrative about relationships and wanting to impress others. Assessment focus: the author’s construction of a character and an evaluation of this character.

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

Students predict whether two dice games are fair and give their reasons. They then play each game (investigate) fifty times and explain their results.

The assessment focus is on student ability to make inferences about character and justify these with evidence from text.

Students identify square and cubic numbers mentally in a timed test.

This practical task involves students making best estimates of sets of items and clearly demonstrating their method(s) of estimation.

Students calculate the repair charges of two different garages, graph them, and explain the results.

Assessment focus: student ability to use contextual clues in order to infer the meaning of a word. (There is a link to the text used for this resource in the Using this Resource section.)

Students are assessed on their ability to find details to identify the main idea of a text about cultural change in a Pacific context.

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

Assessment focus: student ability to use contextual clues in order to infer the meaning of a word. (There is a link to the text used for this resource in the Using this Resource section.)

Students are assessed on their ability to find details to identify the main idea of a text about conservation projects for endangered species.

This task is about using evidence to find the main idea of a text. Students read a narrative text with a Māori context, find two groups of details, then select the main idea from four choices. Note that the text deals with the hunting and slaughter of pigs, which may be a challenging concept for some of your students. SJ-4-2-2004. Text provided.