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Task: investigate reflection of light using a torch and mirror. Assessment focus: angle of reflection.

This comprehension task assesses a student's ability to use evidence in a text to work out what a poem could be about as it is disclosed in stages.

Task: Complete a drawing of things found in or near a waterway, and describe relationships between them. Assessment focus: interdependence in a waterways environment.

Students match bar graphs to tally charts.

Students draw lines to divide up shapes into equal parts and name the fractional value of the part.

Task: Predict, observe, and explain where a piece of wood floats in a container of water and oil. Assessment focus: flotation related to density; explaining predictions.

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

Students use tables, graphs, and equations to find the break-even point for two companies who charge for postage according to different rules.

Students explain how they can work out how many striped or shaded beads are needed for a number of repeated 'sets', and identify the number of striped and shaded beads for given numbers of sets.

Task: select a card to show how to control the variables of an investigation into the rolling distance of marbles on different surfaces. Assessment focus: controlling variables.

Students show how to partition a number of counters and identify the fraction shared.

Students solve subtraction story problems and show their strategies.

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.

Students are assessed on their ability to identify important information and the main idea of an article about a conservation project for an endangered species. Junior Journal 13. Text provided

Students answer questions based on multiplication or division by 25, and explain how they arrived at their answer.

Task: Make careful observations of a picture to decide what you can see and what you might know but can't see.

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

Students solve problems involving finding simple fractions of quantities, and show their working.

Students use fractions as operators to find unit fractions of a given whole number.

Students identify fractions that are greater than one, explain their reasoning and identify how far from one some fractions are.

Students answer questions using a fraction as an operator to find the fraction quantities.

Assessment focus: ability to de-construct and interpret messages in advertising, so that students can understand meaning-making processes in the construction of imagery.

Students identify the shaded fraction of a number of different shapes.

Students identify shapes that have been shaded two-thirds and name the fraction that the other shapes have been shaded.

Task: Decide which of two graphs e.g., tally chart, pictograph, bar graph is represented by a picture and explain how the graph/s are interpreted.