Looking for a comprehensive way to assess your Year 8 students' number sense and arithmetic strategies? This ready-to-print booklet is designed specifically for the New Zealand Mathematics Curriculum (Level 4) and provides a clear snapshot of student progress across five core areas.

This 40-minute assessment balances quick-fire numeric fluency with deep-thinking word problems, ensuring you can identify students who have mastered the "how" as well as the "why."

What’s Included?

This test is divided into five clear, easy-to-mark sections:

• Number Knowledge (Place Value, Rounding to Decimals/Whole Numbers, and Estimation).
• Addition (Mental strategies, tidy numbers, and multi-digit column addition).
• Subtraction (Regrouping, finding the difference, and decimal subtraction).
• Multiplication (Multi-digit factors, multiples of 10, and real-world scaling).
• Division (Short division, remainders, and sharing/grouping problems).

Key Features:

• NZC Aligned: Perfectly suited for Year 8 students working at Level 4.
• Structured for Success: Each section contains 12 questions (8 numeric + 4 word problems) to test both computation and application.
• Booklet Format: Designed to be printed double-sided and stapled into a convenient A4 booklet.
• Versatile Use: Ideal as a summative end-of-term assessment, a diagnostic pre-test, or targeted homework revision.

Teacher Benefits:

• Easy Marking: The clear separation of operations allows you to quickly identify specific gaps in a student's arithmetic toolkit.
• Scaffolded Difficulty: Questions within each section progress from basic fluency to complex multi-step problems.
• Time-Saving: No prep required—just print and go!