Maths resources

This practical task requires students to construct open boxes from grid paper and calculate their volumes.

Students write ratios in their simplest form.

This task is about finding the circumference of a circle using two different radius measurements.

Students order small numbers written in standard form, and explain why they are ordered in that way. The numbers are the lengths of some microscopic animals.

Students identify parts of algebraic equations and use the equations to calculate temperatures in the Antarctic at different times of the day.

Students add fractions with different denominators.

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

Students interpret distance-time graphs for a number of scenarios.

Task: interpret a graph of a car's journey and add to the graph to represent a further description of the journey. Assessment focus: graph interpretation.

Decide if a described investigation is a fair test, and explain the decision. Assessment focus: identifying fair testing.

Students identify data as 'discrete' or 'continuous' from a range of examples.

Students calculate the distance travelled by the tips of the hands on a clock, and calculate the speed of one of the tips.

From diagrams of four original and enlarged drawings to be used for Christmas wrapping paper, students identify the scale factor used and find a missing length on either the enlarged picture or the original picture.

Students calculate the number of packets of biscuits that need to be sold, and how many house visits are needed to attain a given profit.

The start of a spatial pattern of triangles is shown and described in a table. Students generate more of the pattern and describe the relationships algebraically.

Students describe algebraic expressions in words.

Students explain why one set of data is discrete and another is continuous.

Students interpret data presented in a frequency table to calculate percentages and make comparisons.

Students use given ratios to determine the number of people performing kapa haka.

Students are required to give reasons why the samples used to survey New Zealand school students on their favourite sports, may not be representative of the population.

Students construct a back-to-back stem-and-leaf graph of softball throwing distances from two sets of data.

Using data given in a table, students are required to construct a double line graph on the axes provided.

Students answer questions about a line graph showing scores in a cricket game. An understanding of slope is needed.

Students interpret back-to-back stem-and-leaf graphs. Knowledge of the median is required.

Students perform calculations using standard form.