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Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3, 7

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.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3, 7

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.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3, 7

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.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3, 7

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.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3

Cheese Slices

The Cheese Slices task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret and compare nutrition tables and food packages. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are two pictures with a table on the reverse side of each.

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.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3, 7

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.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3, 7

Christy Loves Pizza

The Christy Loves Pizza task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a pie graph. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a pie graph.

This task is a part of the Interpretation of Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 2003 by NEMP.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3, 7

Class Pets

The Class Pets task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a bar graph. Students will complete this task working independently. The resource required for this task is a bar chart in a work book.

This task is a part of the Interpretations of Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 2007 by NEMP.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3, 7

Class Points

The Class Points task allows students to demonstrate their ability to complete a line graph. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a ruler, and a graph 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.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3, 7

Counting Counters

The Counting Counters task allows students to demonstrate their ability to construct a table. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a bag of counters in various colors and sizes.

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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