Students draw and tell what food items they think might be in their partner's lunchbox.

	Assessing student performance
	One or two reasonable responses, unable to justify	Level 1 performance
	Several reasonable responses, unable to justify	Level 2 performance
	Several reasonable responses, gives reasons	Level 2 performance
	Range of possible responses, gives reasons	Level 3 performance

Heads or tails

Students toss a coin 20 times. They record, organise and explain the results.

	Assessing student performance
	Records several throws, needs help to interpret results	Level 1 performance
	Records all throws, counts results	Level 2 performance
	Records all throws, compares results	Level 2 performance
	Data systematically organised, explains results	Level 3 performance

• Use a small spinner. Ask students which numbers are possible and which numbers are impossible, and why.
  
  Identifying both possible and impossible outcomes indicates Level 2.

• Students tell something that is: certain, possible, impossible.
  
  Reasonable answers to all three indicate Level 2.

Sorting money

Students sort a pile of mixed coins and describe their resulting groups.

	Assessing student performance
	Puts same coins together, limited description	Level 1 performance
	Puts same coins together, can describe groups	Level 2 performance
	Can make and describe various sortings	Level 2 performance

What can you tell?

Use a familiar classroom graph that students have helped to make. Students examine the graph and write or draw three things that the graph shows.

	Assessing student performance
	Can count data groups	Level 1 performance
	Can count and compare data groups	Level 2 performance
	Compares and explains data groups	Level 2 performance
	Explains and summarises data groups	Level 3 performance

Tall or short?

Students match pictures of a baby, a young child, an adult and a giraffe to a small streamer graph that represents four quite different heights. Student should tell or write about the reasons behind their matchings.

	Assessing student performance
	Matches some pictures correctly	Level 1 performance
	Matches pictures correctly, some explanation	Level 2 performance
	Relates streamer height to matched pictures	Level 2 performance

Short questions

• Show students attribute blocks already sorted into two groups. What is the mystery sorting rule? Repeat using a different sorting rule.
  
  Successful predictions, and recognition that some rotations look the same indicate Level 2.

• Students are shown a pattern made by repeatedly moving, then tracing one shape. They explain how the pattern has been made. Provide the shape so students can move to work out and to explain.
  
  Ability to see and describe similar attributes of colour or size indicates Level 1.
  Ability to see and describe subtler attributes of shape or thickness indicates Level 2.

• Ask students to 'take the class roll' for the day, recording this on paper in their own way. Ability to collect and record data with reasonable accuracy and to explain findings indicates Level 2.

• Use the class photograph. Students use cubes or counters to make a block graph that shows the number of boys and girls.
  
  Ability to build an accurate block graph and relate this to the photograph indicates Level 2.