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

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3, 7

Space Creatures

The Space Creatures task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a flow chart. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are five pictures and a chart in a recording 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
7

Spending Time

The Spending Time task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret bar graphs. 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.

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

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
7

Staying on at School

The Staying on at School task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a double line graph. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a a double line 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

Subject Pie

The Subject Pie task allows students to demonstrate their ability to label a pie graph appropriately. Students will complete this task working independently. There 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.

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

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
7

Super Frog Beepo

The Super Frog Beepo 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 an incomplete graph and a 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

Swimathon

The Swimathon task allows students to demonstrate their ability to use a distance key on a map. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are a map and ruler.

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

Swimming Pool Timetable

The Swimming Pool Timetable task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a table. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a swimming pool timetable.

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

TV Watching

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

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

Tane's Forest

The Tane's Forest task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a map. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is 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.

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

Subject
Graphs, Tables, and Maps

Grade Level
3, 7

Tane's Forest

The Tane's Forest task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a map using a key. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a map and a key.

This task is a part of the Interpretation of Graphs, Tables, and Maps task series from 1995 by NEMP.

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