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

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

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.

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

Students use the commutative property to find missing numbers in equations and explain the property.

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

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 decide which statement about a dot plot is incorrect and explain their reasoning.

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

Students estimate a multiplication problem, share their methods, discuss the rounding method, and then do more estimation problems using rounding.

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.

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.

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

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.

Students place photos of a canoe trip in order, then use them to write a narrative with a beginning, middle and end.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Students place photos in order, then use them to write a narrative with a beginning, middle and end.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

This comprehension task involves progressively disclosing a poem to students. It assesses their ability to infer.

Students produce a simple written description, using nouns and adjectives with some precision.

Students place photos in order, then use them to write a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end.