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For this practical task students are assessed on their ability to record their observations of the decomposition of a cut slice of pumpkin over a two week time period.

Task: Order fruit according to size and number of seeds, make a generalisation about the pattern and use this to predict whether a fig has small or large seeds. Assessment focus: pattern seeking.

Task: Decide what information can or cannot be inferred from food chain diagrams. Assessment focus: reading food chains

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 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-3-1-2004. Text provided.

Task: Students give oral explanations about how the features of a wētā or a mallard duck help it survive in its environment. Peer assessment sheets are included. Assessment focus: structure and function.

Task: Students decide what sort of animals two skulls belong to. A self-assessment checklist is included. Assessment focus: using evidence to identify carnivores and herbivores.

Students identify the approximate capacities of everyday containers.

Students place decimal numbers in the correct order and position on a number line.

Students interpret and answer questions from a bus timetable including some time calculations.

Task: Use written text and pictures to explain how the special features of Old Man's Beard help it survive. Assessment focus: identifying how the special features help this plant to survive.

Students read about a visit to the islands of Kiribati by a New Zealand flight inspection team to answer retrieval and inferential questions.

A recount about a whale watch is the context for comprehension questions that require making inferences. The recount is reproduced in the resource. SJ-1-1-1998. Text provided.

Students identify whether algebraic equations are always, sometimes, or never true, and explain their reasoning.

Students match given fractions to images of milk bottles to show how full each bottle is.

Students show how they solve equal sharing problems.

Students show that they can picture the whole shape when given a fractional part.

Students compare the overall distribution of two graphs and describe their reasons.

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

This task assesses students' ability to analyse a text to identify and justify character traits and points of view, including the author's.

Students respond to and give directions about a simple path on a map involving right or left turns.

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

Students identify fractions that are greater than a half, explain their reasoning, and identify how far from half some fractions are.

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

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