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Ice Cream The Ice Cream task allows students to demonstrate their ability to complete a table and create a graph. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are an incomplete table, a text, and a space to draw a graph. This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Instant Desserts The Instant Desserts task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret tables. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a packet of banana split instant dessert and a packet of strawberry mousse instant dessert. This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Is That Right? The Is That Right? task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret bar graphs. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are bar graphs in a work book. This task is a part of the Interpretations of Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 2007 by NEMP. |
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Jelly Beans The Jelly Beans task allows students to demonstrate their ability to complete and label a bar graph. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a plastic bag containing colored jelly beans, an incomplete pie graph, and a text. This task is a part of the Construction or Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1995 |
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Jo's Savings The Jo's Savings task allows students to demonstrate their ability to complete a bar graph. Students will complete this task working independently. The are no resources required for this task. This task is a part of the Construction of 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. |
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Junk Food The Junk Food task allows students to demonstrate their ability to decide which graph shows the information most clearly. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are two graphs. 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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Kafte Bar The Kafte Bar task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a nutrition table. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a text and a table. This task is a part of the Interpretation of Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Kelly Tarlton's The Kelly Tarlton's task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a map. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are colored stickers and a map 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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Kid's Savings 1 The Kid's Savings 1 task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a table and compete a graph. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are a ruler, a table, and a line graph in a work book. This task is a part of the Construction of Completing Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 2007 by NEMP. |
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Letter Rates The Letter Rates task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a postage rate chart. Students will complete this task working in one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a domestic letter rate chart and four letters addressed within New Zealand. This task is a part of the Interpretation of Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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