Being Proportional
A face to face workshop where we explored the progression of our ākonga becoming proportional across curriculum levels 3 to 5. This workshop was designed for teacher of students in years 5 through to 10 and presented by Marie Hirst and Robyn Headifen. Download...
More about the Numeracy and literacy changes
A key part of the New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) refresh, is the development of updated strategies for mathematics and literacy, Te Reo Matatini me Pāngarau. The Ministry last week posted background information about this Read: A short 2 pager outlining what the...
This weeks news
AMA online This terms AMAonline took place on Saturday with 217 teachers from across the country registering. Those that joined us for the morning for treated to a fantastic array of ideas. If you registered and were called away then don't worry the recordings are...
55 days to get ready for Maths Week 2021
Maths Week 2021 Monday 9 August until Friday 13 August. 278 000 students and 6 901 teachers took part in Maths Week in 2020 Maths Week is written for all students from Year 1 through to Year 11 and is available free, on-line, to teachers, parents and students. 2020...
#AMAonline Term 2 2021, June 19
Thank you to our wonderful presenters and hosts who made this AMAonline session happen. Resources from the sessions are linked under the abstracts on this page and all together in this document. Recordings are processed and posted below. They are also shared on the...
Census at School: home learning, social media, movies
The 2021 Census at school database is open for analysis and some interesting findings are emerging. Seven out of ten New Zealand school students say that learning at home was the same or better during lockdown compared to learning in school normally. The...
HOD day – the curriculum refresh
Post by Dr Mala Nataraj; Te Kareti o Herewini - Selwyn College At this years HOD day, Esa Samani, Manager New Zealand Curriculum Refresh, shared with us where we are in this mahi, what it means for the mathematics and statistics learning area of the curriculum, and...
Teaching time series in our covid-affected era new
An article by by Chris Wild and Rachel Passmore for NZSA Education Committee. Republished from Census at School with permission All time-series forecasting methods make their forecasts by taking patterns from the past and projecting them into the future. (And there...
NZQA news: support for internally assessed standards
Released this week from NZQA NZQA announced additional updates to their assessor support options for internally assessed standards, including the inference standards at Level 2 and 3, the graphical methods standard at level 2 and Trigonometry at level 3. These new...
Census at School biggest Launch ever
The tenth Census at School | Tataurangakitekura survey launched Monday with a very cool new feature .... Live dashboard Launch day by the numbers 1,871 teachers registered 1,010 schools registered 1,877 students took part today The survey remains open until the end...