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Animal Add Ups The Animal Add Ups task allows students to demonstrate their ability to construct a tally and a bar graph. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are an animal card, a ruler, a table, and a clank grid in a work book. This task is a part of the Construction of Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 2007. 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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Auckland Zoo The Auckland Zoo task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a map of a zoo. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a map, a red pen, and a blue pen. 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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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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Blackbeard's Map The Blackbeard's Map task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a treasure map. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a map in a resource book. This task is a part of the Interpretation of Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 2003 by NEMP. |
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Bug Graphs The Bug Graphs task allows students to demonstrate their ability to construct a graph. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a circle to start graph in recording book, three butterflies, a ruler, five spiders, and two caterpillars. This task is a part of the Construction or Completing 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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Camp Map The Camp Map task allows students to demonstrate their ability to read and interpret a map using a map scale. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a map and a ruler. This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Campground The Campground task allows students to demonstrate their ability to construct a map. Students will complete this task working independently. The resource required for this task is a map in a recording book. This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 2003 by NEMP. |
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Car Race The Car Race task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a horizontal bar graph and a diagram. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a text and a graph. This task is a part of the Interpretation of Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Cellphone Choices The Cellphone Choices task allows students to demonstrate their ability to read information. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a table in a work book. This task is a part of the Interpretations of Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 2007. 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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Christmas Parade The Christmas Parade task allows students to demonstrate their ability to read maps. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a map. This task is a part of the Interpretations of Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 2007. 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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