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Students identify which nets, from a range of options, could fold to make rectangular prisms.

Students identify which shapes are identical to a given shape that have been rotated.

An extract about Sāmoan life provides the context for this assessment with its focus on retrieving information and making inferences. Text available.

Students read an article about the Moa then answer retrieval and inferential questions. SJ-2-3-1982. Text not provided.

Students are required to identify and interpret the metaphors in two short poems.

Student work out the side lengths and area of a tapa cloth from the measurement of a small section of it, converting between cm and metres.

Students read three texts and select the statement that identifies the main idea of each text.

Students read a short extract from a legend to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students are required to read three poems, identify the animal that the object in each poem is being compared with, and identify the ways in which the look or movement of the objects are described so that they seem like these animals.

Students read a text on shoplifting to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

Students work out how much time some bus trips take.

Students give the number of vertices, straight lines, and curved lines and complete sentences to describe different 3-dimensional shapes.

Students read an article on cold water survival and retrieve information from this text.

Students interpret a bar chart that shows the stopping distance of cars and are asked which car is safe and why.

Students complete number sequences, and identify different rules for sequences that begin with the same numbers.

Students discuss making an interval estimate in multiplication problems (i.e., getting a lower and an upper limit for the actual answer using the front-end and rounding-up estimation methods). They then use this method on two problems.

Students calculate the cost of hiring a search and rescue helicopter and compare this cost with another helicopter company's charges.

Task: Look for the similarities and differences in how students draw graphs to display information.

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.

Students use sticks to continue given patterns, and identify the number of sticks needed to make the new shapes in the pattern.

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to infer.

Students solve subtraction story problems and show their strategies.

Students use the commutative property to find missing numbers in equations and explain the property.

Students to apply their understanding of basic wave behaviour at the sea shore to make an inference about waves in a different but analogous context: to predict where the worst damage might occur in an earthquake.

Task: Measure 100mL of water into three different pieces of equipment. Weigh the result and calculate the precision of using that piece of equipment. Assessment focus: measuring and evaluating the accuracy of equipment.