Key competencies resources

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

Task: Use evidence to make inferences about how leaves help plants survive in particular environments. Assessment focus: leaf adaptations.

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.

Task: Predict, observe and explain what will happen when a balloon containing another balloon filled with water is thrown. Assessment focus: making and explaining predictions and observations.

Students use given information to solve a problem using a Venn diagram.

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

In this task students decide which people are estimating and which are not, and explain their reasoning.

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

Students decide if a percentage statement is correct and explain their answer.

Students calculate percentage increases and decreases for odd jobs 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 identify fractions that are greater than a half, explain their reasoning, and identify how far from half some fractions are.

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

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

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

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

Students calculate fraction division problems and show their working.

Students find fractions of numbers of different farm animals and put them in their simplest form.

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

Students estimate the sum of a number of fractions.

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

Students convert heights of a building into the percentage of the given total height, explaining how they solved some conversions. Assessment focus is on how they calculate these heights and what strategies they use.

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