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Money Items The Menu Items task allows students to demonstrate their money sense. Students will select which items from a menu they would order, calculate the total cost, and calculate how much change they would get back. Students will complete this task working independently. There are no resources required for this task. This task is a part of the Money task series from 1997 by NEMP. |
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Money Matters In the Money Matters task, students will l be able to get into conversation about money, learn some facts about history of money and about money in other countries, discuss students’ pocket money and proverbs about money, make media products about money. |
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Money Matters In this task, students will collaborate with participating classes in discussing their opinions of money in an online forum. This task includes: |
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Motorway The Motorway task allows students to demonstrate their ability to approximate calculations. Students will be told how many cars travel on a road in a minute and will approximate how many cars will travel on the road in nine minutes. Then they will explain how they go their answer. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a picture of a busy motorway and a recording book. This task is a part of the Number task series from 2001 by NEMP. |
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Muffin Mix The Muffin Mix task allows students to demonstrate their knowledge of fractions by doubling and tripling fractions. Students will complete this task working independently. The resource required for this task is an answer booklet. This task is a part of the Number & Algebra 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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Multiplication (Y8) The Multiplication (Y8) task allows students to demonstrate their ability to multiply without using a calculator. Students will complete this task working independently. The resource required for this task is an answer booklet. This task is a part of the Number & Algebra 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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Multiplication Examples The Multiplication Examples task allows students to demonstrate their ability to add multiply multi-digit numbers without a calculator. Students will complete this task working independently. There are no resources required for this task. This task is a part of the Number 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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Multiplication Facts The Multiplication Facts task allows students to demonstrate their knowledge of multiplication facts. Students will see and hear a multiplication fact through a video and will have three seconds to respond. Students will complete this task working in stations. There resource required for this task is a video. This task is a part of the Number task series from 1997 by NEMP. |
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Nets The Nets task allows students to demonstrate their ability to visualize 3D objects. Students will select nets that can be folded to make a cube. Students will complete this task working independently. The resource required for this task is an answer booklet. 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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Newspaper Report The Newspaper Report unit includes an introduction, the learning focus, 4 teaching and learning activities, assessment criteria, and resources. Unit description from source: In Newspaper Report students identify characteristics of text style that can be used to describe the differences between newspapers and then collect summary statistics from a range of newspapers. They analyze these statistics and produce a report based on their findings. Working within teams, students provide constructive feedback on each others' work and analyze different points of view. |
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