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Students sort different shapes into tessellating and not tessellating categories and explain their reasoning.

Students use estimation strategies to calculate the number of vegetables they can buy with given amounts of money.

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 estimate a division problem, share their methods, discuss the nice numbers and factors method, and then do more problems using nice numbers and factors.

This task requires students to show how to estimate numbers of items in some multiplication problems using any acceptable estimation strategy.

Students interpret a line graph of the weight of a baby over 12 weeks and answer questions about weight, forecasting and the rate of change.

Students read an article on milking cows and then find information in it to complete a retrieval chart.

Students interpret a tree diagram to answer questions about the probability of selecting certain combinations.

Students calculate the numbers of pieces of fruit and vegetables divided evenly into bags, and any remainder.

Students calculate the number of free gifts distributed at a Tennis Championship given the number of people entering and the frequency of the gifts given away.

Students use a protractor to find given angles and draw angles of given degrees.

Choose which toy vehicle will roll further, and explain why. The two vehicles are set up under different conditions (ramps at different slopes, rolling onto different surfaces at the bottom). Assessment focus: science explanations using ideas about forces and energy.

Task: Answer questions about a table comparing the energy usage and lifespan of different sorts of lights, and use this information to complete a second table to describe advantages and disadvantages of each. Assessment focus: reading a technical table.

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of a science report about moa.

Using Pythagoras' theorem and trigonometry ratios, students calculate distances between people standing in a paddock.

The assessment focus is punctuation with students inserting commas and speech marks into text.

This task requires students to answer questions about a bar graph showing hours of sunshine over a week.

This task is about finding the circumference of a circle using two different radius measurements.

Students calculate the area of four different triangle shapes on a grid.

Students solve subtraction maths problems and show their strategy for working it out.

This task requires students to estimate some addition problems using any appropriate method.

Students decide which children are estimating and which are not, and explain their reasoning.

Students solve addition maths problems and show their strategy for working it out.

Students calculate the lengths and areas of a road sign.

This oral language resource has students matching debating terms and their definitions with extracts from a debate.