Margaret and John Kalman Teaching Excellence Prizes
The Margaret and John Kalman Charitable Trust is again generously offering four teacher excellence prizes of $5,000. As part of the award the winning teachers and 15 of their students will be invited to spend a day with the Mathematics department at the...
Zooming in … end of term professional learning at home
Lots of professional learning opportunities available from the comfort of home live and on-demand Here is what is coming up as we head towards the end of term including the first of our AMAonline in the evenings on July 1 Today : Wednesday 24 June, 3:40pm to 4:40pm ...
NZ Engineering Science competition
Coming up is the annual New Zealand Engineering Science competition organised by the University of Auckland's Department of Engineering Science, and sponsored by Orion Health and Fisher & Paykel Healthcare. This fun and challenging competition is for teams of...
Web Wednesday
This week we begin regular post gathering together some of the resources from the web. Today we have chosen to highlight 3 New Zealand organisations that have developed teaching and learning resources for us that are aligned to the NZ Curriculum. NZ transport agency...
Figure it Out Books all online
This week nzmaths finished uploading PDF's of all the english medium Figure it Out activities to their website. Figure It Out is a series of mathematics curriculum support books designed to supplement existing classroom programmes. Along with the student activities...
NCEA courses on Classroom NZ2020
Taken from the Ministry Bulletin June 11 2020 The Ministry of Education have been working towards making available ClassroomNZ2020, a new platform with a range of online courses, to support students until the end of February 2021. These online courses were developed...
Online Olympiad Results & NZMO Round 1
Its great to see the message got out and schools from all over Aotearoa | New Zealand took part in the inaugural online maths olympiad. 540 students in years 7 to 11, representing 160 schools spread from northland to the southland took part.3 29 of them from 73...
Data science lessons from youcubed
90% of the worlds data has been created in the last 2 years, which means our lives and the lives of our students are filled with data. All students should leave school being able to make sense of data, be critical in what they see and be able to separate fact from...
Prismatic, an online journal for teachers of mathematics & statistics
Prismatic is a free online journal for teachers of mathematics and statistics from the University of Auckland. To date two issues of the journal have been published with each edition of Prismatic having similar features an opinion piece or commentary a review of...
Online Trials for 91262 & 91586
NZQA update on the development of prototype assessment activities in a digital environment for AS91262 Apply Calculus Methods in Solving Problems AS91586 Apply probability distributions in solving problems. NZQA originally planned to trial these activities with...