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Students complete open number sentences to show their understanding of equality.

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

Students show how to partition shapes into a given number of equal parts and identify the fraction of each part.

Students place fractional numbers in the correct order on a number line.

Students use cuisenaire rods to work out part-whole fraction problems.

Students compare fractions, identify which is larger, and explain or show their reasoning.

Students compare fractions, identify which is larger, and explain or show their reasoning.

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

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: 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.

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.

Students identify whether two shapes have been partitioned evenly or not, and show how to correctly partition the shapes.

Task: Students answer questions about feeding relationships in a rocky shore ecosystem. Assessment focus: interpreting a food web.

Task: Students interpret information about couch grass from a diagram and explain why its special features make it difficult to get rid of. Assessment focus: special features ensure a plant's survival.

Reading text to find information about how scientists work. Assessment focus: interpreting information about how scientists work.

Task: Use close observation of photos and prior knowledge, to write explanations of how the special features of animal tongues help animals survive in their habitats. Assessment focus: structure and function.

Task: Design a plant that meets the criteria for a particular environment. Assessment focus: identifying specific features of a plant and explaining how they help it survive in its environment.

Students show fractions on a number line and on the side of a milk bottle.

Students draw lines to divide up shapes into fractional parts.

Students identify the shaded fraction of a number of different shapes.

Students use number lines to show how to solve whole number addition and subtraction problems.

Students show how they solve equal sharing problems.

Students explain why a range of students' answers to a maths problem are incorrect.

Students work out the number of covered counters on a 10 x 10 array.

Students halve and double a range of numbers.