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Students listen to a folktale then recall information from it by answering multiple-choice questions.

Students identify multiples of 5 and of 3, and explain their reasoning.

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 fold pieces of paper shaped as a rectangle, square, and circle to show fractions.

Students show how to work out the number of 1-digit that there are in 2-digit numbers.

Students show or explain how to share equally amongst a number of people.

Students order fractions from smallest to greatest, and work out fractions of an amount.

Students show or explain how to share cakes and pizzas equally amongst a number of people.

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

Students use percentages to calculate heights of a building from the total height. They then explain how to calculate another percentage.

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

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.