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Students evaluate how many complete times a number divides into another when there is a remainder.

Students calculate increases in length, area, and volume, and relate this to the scale factor for an enlargement.

Students use a number line to show as a fraction, the probability of the outcomes of different coin throws.

This listening comprehension assessment is based on a short extract from a school journal on moving an old house. SJ-2-3-1995. Text not provided.

Students fill in the missing sequential numbers on a magic plant and write a rule for the pattern.

Students read an article on the marathon. They then answer a range of comprehension and vocabulary questions.

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

Task: Watch a video of two sofas burning, record the results, and use the evidence to make inferences about fire retardants. Assessment focus: using observations to provide evidence.

Students describe a functional rule for two spatial patterns.

Task: students investigate the rolling distance of marbles on different surfaces. Assessment focus: processing information to answer a question.

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

Students conduct a statistical investigation about their prediction of the most common words used in English. They make graphs, describe their shape, and compare their own graph with ones that other students produce.

Task: Match descriptions of kingfishers to their likely diet, and answer questions about food chains. Assessment focus: interpretation of text and pie graphs; conventions of food chains.

Task: Show the relationship of birds' beaks and feet to the food they eat. Assessment focus: adaptations.

In this task, students look for patterns in electron arrangement in the periodic table. They use their ideas to place missing elements in the table, answer some questions about the patterns, and use the patterns to predict the properties of some elements.

Task: Students read a short written text to explain how the special features of wild ginger help it survive. Assessment focus: explanation of wild ginger's special features and why it is a pest plant.

Students describe algebraic expressions in words.

This practical task requires students to use a plastic comb and wool to generate static electricity. Students investigate different materials to find those that are attracted to the static charge.

This practical task requires students to record data, which is read out to them, on a stem-and-leaf graph. The leaves are then ordered into a second graph and the graph interpreted.

The assessment focus is on an informative speech to a small group about a famous historical person. Student directions, a checklist, and scoring guides are included.

This assessment task has students writing a short conversation between friends, using speech marks that have been modelled in the task.

This practical task requires students to plan and carry out a fair test to find out which paper type will soak up water the best.

This practical task requires students to record temperatures of various areas in the school and to suggest reasons why some areas are warmer or cooler than others.

This practical requires students to place four photographs of kākāpo at different times in their life cycle in order from youngest to oldest. Students describe how the kākāpo changes from each part of the life cycle to the next. NOTE: This resource is intended to be used in colour.

From a list of language techniques that writers use to emphasise a word or idea, students identify which ones have been used in some sentences and then write their own examples.