Students are required to give reasons why the samples used to survey New Zealand school students on their favourite sports, may not be representative of the population.
Students use the angle between a tangent and a radius property and the base angles in an isosceles triangle property to find an unknown angle and to explain why line segments are of equal size.
Students use their knowledge of the interior angles of regular polygons, isosceles triangles, and parallelograms to work out unknown angles for a variety of 2-dimensional shapes.
Task: Select what would happen when like poles of a magnet come together, and explain why a plastic rather than a metal car was used in the investigation. Assessment focus: magnetism.
This assessment task provides students with four statements on recycling. Students circle whether each statement is true or false to determine their understanding of recycling.