Teaching statistical literacy – GAISE II report released
From American Statistical Association [ASA] The demands for statistical literacy have never been greater. Good data sense is needed to easily read and make sense of media headlines. The Pre-K–12 GAISE (guidelines for assessment and instruction in statistics education)...
Mathex 2020
Updated – questions and answers now linked Over the two nights 204 year 7 & 8 teams and 180 year 9 & 10 teams from 93 schools took part in this years’ Mathex competitions. That’s a lot of young mathematicians. Huge thanks to everyone behind the scenes...
Kalman award winners
reposted from https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/science/business-and-community-engagement/schools/kalman-charitable-trust-prizes-and-fellowship.html The Margaret and John Kalman Trust have generously sponsored a Teacher Excellence Prize valued at $5,000 and five Teacher...
From this weeks Ministry bulletin : NCEA changes, literacy & numeracy, TOD’s
Many of you will be wondering what is happening with the NCEA review and what progress has been made on the new numeracy standards in particular. This weeks’ Ministry bulletin has documents with snippets of information for schools, on the upcoming Teacher only...