Maths resources

Students answer questions that require calculations with distance, time and speed.

Pairs of students play a game with four dice, calculate the probability of winning the game, comment on how to get a more accurate estimate of the probability, and explain whether the game is fair based on their results.

Students solve practical word problems.

Students predict which 3-dimensional shapes nets will make and then fold nets to identify the shapes.

Students enlarge shapes by specified increases in each dimension.

This resource is about students continuing linear or quadratic spatial patterns, and giving rules for them.

Students use fractions to describe the probability of receiving cellphones of certain colours as a prize.

Students answer questions about a table showing hair and eye colour of students. Calculation is required.

Students read statements based on a bar graph and show understanding by marking whether each statement is correct.

Students show their understanding of a dot plot by responding to questions about the birth months of a class.

Students answer maths problems involving multiplication and show their strategies.

Students express fractions, related distances covered, as percentages.

Students compute how much each of two people get when given amounts are divided according to given ratios in a variety of contexts.

Students answer questions about total cost, cheapest, most expensive, and the maximum number of books that can be bought. Book prices are decimal numbers.

Students write 3-digit numbers in compact and expanded form.

Students work out starting and finishing times, and how long events take.

For this NEMP task students use a protractor to measure how many degrees two boats turn as they change course.

Students interpret a line graph showing the amount of money in a savings account over time. No calculation is required.

Students calculate the area of a bush reserve in hectares.

Students calculate the area of a range of rectangular shapes.

Students calculate the distance around three different sized gardens.

In this practical task students use multi-link cubes to construct two 3-dimensional models from pictures of each model from two different viewpoints.

In this practical task, students use multi-link cubes to construct two 3-dimensional models from pictures of each model from two different viewpoints.

Students plan aspects of a statistical investigation about the most common birth month in Year 8, including designing a table for data collection.

In this practical task students use straws to construct skeleton models of 3-dimensional shapes from given drawings.