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What Shape is Your Silo? In this task, students will research and submit a blueprint for their farm and calculate if they will be able to make it efficient. This task includes: |
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What Will They Think? In this task, students will examine a few responses and predict how others will respond when asked about new food products. This task includes: |
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What's My Number? The What's My Number? task allows students to demonstrate their ability to verify and prove correct answers. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are three cards. This task is a part of the Number & Algebra task series from 2005 by NEMP. |
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What's the Time? The What's theTime? task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of analogue and digital clocks. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are two model clocks and a recording book. This task is a part of the Measurements 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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What's the Time? The What's the Time? task allows students to demonstrate their ability to read clocks by matching the selecting the analogue and digital clacks that show the same time. Students will complete this task working independently. There are no resources required for the task. 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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Whetu's Frame The Whetu's Frame task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of edges and corners of 3D objects. Students will answer questions about a cube shaped frame. Students will complete this task working independently. There are no resources required for this task. This task is a part of the Geometry task series from 2001 by NEMP. |
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Which Unit? The Which Unit? task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of appropriate units of measurement. Students will be given a set of objects and distances and will then choose the best unit for their weight or distance. 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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Which is Bigger? The Which is Bigger? task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of fractions by choosing the bigger fraction between two fractions. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are three fraction cards. 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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Who Are We? The Who Are We? unit includes an introduction, the learning focus, 4 teaching and learning activities, assessment criteria, and resources. Unit description from source: In Who are we? students work cooperatively in a team to develop and implement a class survey about selected characteristics of class members. They brainstorm ideas to develop suitable survey questions, collect survey data, and then use spreadsheets to organise and represent their findings. Survey results and inferences made are presented to the class using multimedia tools. |
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Whose Park Is This? Designing a Youth Oriented Park In this task, students will work in groups to come up with a park design, using geometry to be sure that the space is is being used most efficiently. This task includes: |
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