Task
It's Harvest Day in Burraga Hollow! The friends are gathering gumnuts, sharing them out, and running a little bush stall. Help them with the numbers along the way. Show your working — Biscuit loves to see how you think.
Part A — Place value
1. The friends counted 14 605 gumnuts this year. Write this number in words.
2. Partition 14 605 into ten-thousands, thousands, hundreds, tens and ones.
3. Order these gumnut counts from smallest to largest: 3 400, 14 605, 3 040, 9 870.
Part B — Adding & subtracting
4. Bo's burrow holds 2 350 gumnuts and Pip's hollow holds 1 875. How many altogether? Show your working.
5. The friends started with 4 000 gumnuts and shared 1 640 with the birds. How many are left?
Part C — Groups & sharing
6. Biscuit packs gumnuts into baskets of 8. How many gumnuts in 7 full baskets? 7 × 8 =
7. 36 gumnuts are shared equally among 4 friends. How many each? Show how you know.
Part D — The bush stall (money)
8. Mae buys a gumnut cake for $3.45 and pays with a $5 coin. How much change should she get, to the nearest five cents?
Part E — Missing numbers
9. Ollie covered a number with a leaf. Find it: 25 + □ = 40. □ =
10. Write a different number sentence that gives the same answer as 12 + 8.
Rubric criteria (weights as a percentage of this assessment)
| Criterion | Weight | Descriptor |
|---|---|---|
| Addition & subtraction | 30% | Adds and subtracts four-digit numbers using efficient strategies, with working shown (Part B). |
| Multiplication, division & money | 30% | Recalls multiplication/division facts and solves sharing and money/change problems (Parts C & D). |
| Place value & number sense | 25% | Reads, writes, partitions and orders numbers to tens of thousands accurately (Parts A). |
| Number sentences & reasoning | 15% | Finds unknown quantities and writes equivalent number sentences (Part E). |