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

Students identify square and cubic numbers mentally in a timed test.

Students answer questions involving adding and subtracting fractions of food.

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

Task: Match everyday terms about properties with their meanings. Use their understanding about properties of paper and their uses to justify appropriate questions to investigate. Assessment focus: asking questions about paper properties.

Task: Process and interpret data in a table to identify the best paper to use for a game. Evaluate the reliability of the collected data. Assessment focus: using evidence to answer a question.

Students are assessed on their ability to find details that relate to the main idea of a text about a flood. SJ-2-2-2004. Text provided.

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of an explanation of a scientific idea.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to identify important information to establish the main idea of a transactional text about blushing. SJ-4-1-2006. Text provided.

Task: Complete a diagram of part of the water cycle and answer a question about rain. Assessment focus: Question a) – the water cycle and conventions of diagrams; question b) – evaporation of a solution.

Task: Match the parts of a water cycle to the parts represented in a model of the water cycle and compare how they are the same and different. Assessment focus: interpreting a model.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to identify important information to establish the main idea of a narrative text about acknowledging older people. SJ-3-3-2006. Text provided.

Students compare different types of quadrilateral shapes and answer questions about which of a pair is a special case of the other one.

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

Students use tables, graphs, and equations to find the break-even point for two companies who charge for postage according to different rules.

Task: Describe what happens to ice in a glass of water, giving reasons, and explain where water forming on the outside of the glass comes from. Assessment focus: changes of state.

Students calculate volumes of composite shapes, showing their working.

Students read from, and mark points on, non-linear scales.

Students calculate the lengths of circles and straight lines on an oval athletics track from its given radius and total length, and show their working.

Task: Answer questions about what happens to water in open and closed containers. Assessment focus: evaporation.

Task: Describe where water goes when washing is drying and from a swimming pool, and discuss factors that affect this process. Assessment focus: evaporation.

Task: Answer questions about what happens to water in open and closed containers and compare to the water cycle. Assessment focus: evaporation, the water cycle.

Students are assessed on their ability to find details and identify the main idea of a narrative about a Cook Island tradition.

Students are assessed on their ability to find details about important information in a recount about a walking school bus, then identify the main idea of this text. SJ-1-1-2006. Text provided.

This comprehension task assesses student ability to identify important information and establish the main idea of a text. SJ-2-2-2006. Text provided.