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

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
7

Air Timetable

The Air Timetable task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a flight timetable. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is an Air New Zealand Business Week Timetable.

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

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.

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

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
7

Aroha Town

The Aroha Town task allows students to demonstrate their ability to make a key for 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. 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

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.

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

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
7

Baking

The Baking task allows students to demonstrate their ability to complete a pie graph. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a ruler and three colored pencils.

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

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.

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

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
7

Best Value

The Best Value task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a table and make a complex judgement. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a table showing battery life.

This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1999. 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

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.

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

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3, 7

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.

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.

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