Key competencies resources

Students identify the correct resultant vector of two component vectors, and also identify the correct diagram of a vector that is written in column form.

Task: Students draw a picture of a burning candle to show changes that occur. Assessment focus: representing the way particles behave when material undergoes temporary and permanent changes.

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

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

Student solve addition problems where the missing value is located in different positions. This may mean that students transform the problem into a subtraction one. Students reflect on the easiest and hardest problems, and explain their choice.

Students demonstrate their understanding of order of operations by explaining how a correct answer is calculated.

Students answer questions using percentages to find missing amounts, and writing percentages using given amounts.

Students show how to work out the number of 1-digit that there are in 2-digit numbers.

Students calculate fraction division problems and show their working.

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

Students work out fractional values of whole numbers in a range of contexts and show their working.

Students identify fractions that are greater than a half and explain their reasoning. They also identify how far from half some fractions are and name a fraction closer to half than one given.

Students answer questions using a fraction as an operator to find the fraction quantities.

Students add and subtract fractions to work out fractions of food.

Students answer questions involving finding how many of one fraction goes into another fraction.

Students show that given a fractional part they can show the whole shape or another fractional part.

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

Students use the commutative property to find missing numbers in equations and explain the property.

This task requires students to estimate some addition problems using any appropriate method.

Students estimate the sum of a number of fractions.

Students calculate percentage increases and decreases for odd jobs and show their working.

Students answer questions about fractions of different wholes (units).

Students write a report on a table of data and make recommendations from their report.

Students answer maths problems involving multiplication, and show their working.

Students recommend which store offers the cheapest product based on calculations of percentage increase or decrease, and fully justify their answers.