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Bay Express The Bay Express task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a train timetable. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a train timetable. This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Beach People The Beach People task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of different perspectives on resource use. Students will complete this task working in groups. The resources required for this task are four pictures and two team answer sheets. This task is a part of the Resources and Economic Activities task series from 2009. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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Bean Bag Toss The Bean Bag Toss task allows students to demonstrate their personal movement skills, their physical co-ordination, and their ability to manipulate equipment. Students will complete this task in open space. The resources required for this task are three bean bags, a tray, and blu-tack. This task is a part of the Movement Skills task series from 1998. |
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Bean Estimates The Bean Estimates task allows students to demonstrate their ability to estimate by estimating how many beans will fit on three trays of different sizes. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are three trays (red, blue, and green), twenty beans, and a recording book. This task is a part of the Measurement task series from 2001. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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Beanies The Beanies task allows students to demonstrate their throwing, catching, and flicking skills. Students will complete this task working in open space. The resource required for this task is a bean bag. This task is a part of the Movement Concepts & Motor Skills task series from 2006. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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Beans The Beans task allows students to explain how to solve subtraction problems with and without bean counters. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are four film canisters filled with ten beans in each and a subtraction card. This task is a part of the Number & Algebra task series from 2005. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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Bear Box The Bear Box task allows students to demonstrate their ability to design and draw a 3D box that is suitable for a teddy bear. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a teddy bear, a pencil, a rubber, a 30 cm ruler, and an instruction card. This task is a part of the Technological Capabilities task series from 2000 by NEMP. |
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Bear Mixes In the Bear Mixes task, students will be told how many bears they have and information about the colors of the bears. They will use this information to determine how many of each color bears they have. This task involves addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, fractions, and percentages. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are twenty yellow bears and twenty blue bears. This task is a part of the Algebra, Statistics, and Logic task series from 1997 by NEMP. |
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Bed Times The Bed Times task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a bar graph. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are a red pen and a bar graph in a resource book. This task is a part of the Interpretation of Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 2003. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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Bedroom Plan The Bedroom Plan task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a bedroom plan. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a laminated plan. This task is a part of the Viewing task series from 2002. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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