Key competencies resources

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.

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

This task assesses student ability to find the text features of a science report about one of our native birds. The task is essentially a literacy task in the context of scientific writing, and can also be accessed from the English Bank.

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

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

Students answer questions involving adding and subtracting fractions of cake.

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.