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

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3

Birthdays

The Birthdays task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a pictograph. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a pictograph.

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

Biscuit Eating

The Biscuit Eating task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a flow chart. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task is a flow chart and a summary questions.

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

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.

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
7

Caterpillars

The Caterpillars task allows students to demonstrate their ability to create a graph with labels. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a labelled graph paper and text.

This task is a part of the Construction or Completing 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.

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