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Town and Country The Town and Country task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of effects of the environment on lifestyle. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are two pictures, a similar/different chart, twelve activity cards, and a recording book. This task is a part of the Place and Environment 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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Toyota Camry The Toyota Camry task allows students to demonstrate their measuring sense by estimating the dimensions of a car. Students will complete this task working independently. The resource required for this task is an answer booklet. This task is a part of the Measurement 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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Toys The Toys task allows students to demonstrate their ability to investigate and evaluate design. Students will look at several toys and answer questions about them. Students will complete this task working in groups. The resources required for this task are five toys, four team badges, two pictures, and two cards. This task is a part of the Technology & Society task series from 2008. 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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Train Tickets The Train Tickets task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a timetable for a train system. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a timetable in a recording book. This task is a part of the Interpretation of Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 2003 by NEMP. |
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Train Trucks The Train Trucks task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of patterns and sequences. using train trucks. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a yellow/blue train, a red/green train, and a garage. This task is a part of the Algebra and Statistics 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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Trapezium The Trapezium task allows students to demonstrate their ability to create geometry shapes. Students will draw different ways they can make a trapezium using trapeziums, triangles, and parallelograms. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are three shapes (red trapezium, green triangle, blue parallelogram). This task is a part of the Geometry 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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Travel Times The Travel Times task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a horizontal bar graph. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a bar graph. This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Traveling Trucks The Traveling Trucks task allows students to sort magnetic and non-magnetic objects based on prior experience and practical investigation and try to generalize their understanding. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include a toy truck, a magnet, and a bag of objects. This task is a part of the Physical World task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Traveling to School The Traveling to School task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret graphs and make predictions. Students will look at a graph that depicts how children get to school and answer questions about it. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a graph. This task is a part of the Statistics 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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Treasure Find The Treasure Find task allows students to demonstrate their ability to follow directs and computer skills. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a Macintosh Powerbook 5300CS laptop computer with program Hypercard® Player, headphones, a mouse, and the Hypercard® documents Mac Moves (as an introductory exercise) and Treasure Hunt. This task is a part of the Using Computers Ideas from 1996 by NEMP. |
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