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Task: Answer two questions about melting and two questions about dissolving. Assessment focus: describe and explain melting and dissolving.

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

Students answer questions involving adding and subtracting fractions of food.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to find the main idea of a transactional text about a Māori naturalist/scientist. Students are asked to read a text, identify the main idea from three choices provided, and then justify why they think their choice is right.

Students are assessed on their ability to identify the main idea in a text about bridge construction.

Task: Match descriptions of kingfishers to their likely diet, and answer questions about food chains. Assessment focus: interpretation of text and pie graphs; conventions of food chains.

Task: Students explain six things that would be needed to develop and maintain an offshore island habitat for endangered birds. Assessment focus: identification of needs of endangered birds.

Task: Students decide what sort of animals two skulls belong to. A self-assessment checklist is included. Assessment focus: using evidence to identify carnivores and herbivores.

Task: Look for the similarities and differences in leaf patterns to answer questions about observations and evidence.

Students identify whether algebraic equations are always, sometimes, or never true, and explain their reasoning.

Students show how they estimate in some multiplication problems and come up with sensible estimates.

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

Students to show how they estimate in some addition problems.

Students decide on the variables that will make an experiment about boiling water a fair test. Assessment focus: Recognising multiple variables.

Students show how they solve equal sharing problems.

Students decide whether a graph is suitable to display category data and explain their answer.

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 rounding method, and then do more problems using rounding.

Students solve different forms of addition equations.

Students use the additive identity and the commutative property to assist them to solve simple equations without calculating.

Students select a non-standard unit of measure to measure an envelope and explain their choice.

Students predict nets that fold to make a cube, then cut out and fold the nets to check their prediction.

Students solve different forms of subtraction equations.

Students perform decimal multiplication and division involving the cost of material, without the use of a calculator.