Feedback requested on draft Te Reo Matatini me Pāngarau standards
reposted from https://conversation.education.govt.nz/conversations/ncea-review/literacy-and-numeracy/ As part of the NCEA Change Package, new Unit Standards are being developed to assess foundational literacy and numeracy. Draft Te Reo Matatini me Pāngarau (Literacy...
International Modelling Challenge 2021
New Zealand will again be participating in the International Mathematical Modelling Challenge for 2021 (https://immchallenge.org/). This is a call out to invite you all to consider submitting a team again for this year's challenge. Each country can have up to two...
Resubmission rules change effective February 1 2021
https://www.nzqa.govt.nz/about-us/publications/newsletters-and-circulars/assessment-matters/change-to-resubmission-rules-from-2021-onwards/ From Feb 1 new rules around resubmission for all standards come into effect. Schools will only be allowed to offer a...
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 and on...
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 days...
AMA mathematics & calculus teachers day: registrations open
AMA have a full programme for you for this years mathematics and calculus teachers day and are excited about being able to connect in person. When: December 1 Where: The University of Auckland, City Campus, Science Centre Goto event website for more information about...
AMAonline: Term 4 Saturday morning resources
[Updated] We hope you enjoyed your morning of professional learning. Recordings of November 7 and past sessions are available on the AMA Youtube Channel and linked below the descriptions here. If you watched live or are going to watch the recordings we would love...
Statistics teachers day 2020 – registration open
This years theme ... Bring Your Own “big ideas” for teaching statistics We have Andrew Sporle from the department of statistics opening the day and Dr Michelle Dalrymple giving the closing address with 23 workshops to choose from in between Andrew is is one of three...