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Students explore the concept of equality by deciding whether addition sentences are true, false or not proper number sentences.

Task: Complete chart to show how birds' feet and beaks are suitably adapted for their particular food and environment. Assessment focus: inference.

The context for this listening comprehension assessment is an extract on violins. Students listen to the extract and answer 6 multiple-choice questions. SJ-2-1-1994. Text not provided.

Students listen to a text about cacti and recall information from it in multiple-choice questions. SJ-2-3-1993. Text not provided.

Students read a text containing instructions then answer retrieval and inferential questions. SJ-2-2-1984. Text provided.

Students read a report on a fisheries officer's work and make mainly short written responses. The assessment focus is on comprehension and vocabulary. SJ-3-3-1990. Text provided.

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to use evidence from the poem to work out what it could be describing. SJ-4-1-2002. Text provided.

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

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

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

Task: Identify from an experiment the preferred living conditions of slaters, and use a fact file to suggest reasons why. Assessment focus: interpreting results of an investigation.

Students read a one-page article on DNA testing and answer four selected response questions about the aim and purpose of the article.

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

In this task students decide which people are estimating and which are not, and explain their reasoning.

In this task students decide which people are estimating and which are not, and explain their reasoning.

Students show how to calculate maths problems involving fractions as a part and as a whole.

Students complete a table then describe and write a rule to work out the number of matchsticks needed to make alien shape patterns.

Students predict the outcome of throwing five dice and confirm their predictions by conducting an experiment and calculating probabilities. After discussing how to get better estimates, they pool their results with others to get a more accurate estimate of how good their predictions were.

Students convert heights of a building into the percentage of the given total height, explaining how they solved some conversions. Assessment focus is on how they calculate these heights and what strategies they use.

Students are assessed on their ability to find details to identify the main idea of a text about cultural change in a Pacific context.

Students read a narrative about a girl who behaves like an overly enthusiastic parent and her father who behaves like a reluctantly involved adolescent. They use and evaluate evidence from the text, alongside their background knowledge, to complete the task. SJ-3-2-2010. Text not provided.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to evaluate the ideas and information in a text about an environmental issue. Students are asked to read a text, then respond to four questions. SJ-4-3-2005. Text provided.

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

Task: explain the effect of temperature on metal and wood. Assessment focus: the effect of heat on different materials.

Decide if a described investigation is a fair test, and explain the decision. Assessment focus: identifying fair testing.