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Students complete a table to show the amount of money paid for work, and finish a rule to describe the relationship.

Task: Look at the arrangement of fibres for four different paper towels, arrange an appropriate sequence of instructions, carry out the instructions and then communicate the data in an appropriate graph that will help answer the question. Different elements of the nature of science are embedded throughout the tasks. Assessment focus: planning and carrying out a fair test, using evidence to answer a question.

Students interpret information about unnamed planets and their length of year to answer questions about their distance from the Sun and the order of these planets from the Sun.

Students identify the rule for continuing number patterns then develop their own pattern and write it as a rule.

This practical task requires students to use straws to build up a linear pattern. Students then predict the number of straws needed for successive patterns and explain their rule.

Students describe the shape of two distinctive dot plots showing different data.

Students answer a multiple choice question about what happens when a magnetised object is cut in half, and then draw the lines of the magnetic field around two magnets.

Students answer two questions about the number of seats available as more tables are added to a row, and state a rule for the pattern.

Describe methods for speeding up and slowing down melting of an ice cube using one of three provided objects, and explain why the methods would work. Assessment focus: planning an investigation.

Task: Make a sound gun and use it to investigate what happens to a candle when the end of the sound gun is tapped. Assessment focus: sound waves.

Students are given stimulus material on the stopping distance of a toy car released from different heights. Students write an aim, the best way to present the results, identify the measurement required in order to calculate the average speed, and write a conclusion for the investigation.

This practical task assesses students' ability to identify the larger animal group that four vertebrate animals belong to and then identify the features that those groups have using labels.

Students use stimulus material to answer a number of questions relating to temperature change in materials which are at different distances from a heat source.

Students use rules to find numbers and use given numbers to work out rules shown on number machines.

This practical task requires students to make observations and draw diagrams about diffusion that occurs when food colouring is added to water.

For this task students identify what may cause clouds to be at different heights and then interpret weather information to answer a multiple-choice question about fog.

Students use a plan of the school and a scale to answer questions about length and distance of buildings and courts in the school.

Students perform calculations on indoor cricket scores, which include negative numbers.

This assessment takes the context of the New Zealand flag and has questions that focus on presenting, layout, symbols, and visual cues.

Students use addition and subtraction to calculate temperatures over periods of time.

Students give reasons for and against saving endangered animals or plants.

A stylised postcard on Christchurch is analysed and interpreted through short questions on the card's visual features.

Students perform calculations in standard form.

Using three dice, students investigate and list the different possible combinations of odd numbers showing on the top face of each dice.

Students choose the best statement from five options to describe the probability of receiving notes and coins in a board game.