Ministry’s concern over gaps in NZ maths teaching
Readers will be pleased to know that we already have a name for "space and…
Category: Secondary
Show your working – it really helps
“Show your working” is a common request in high school maths exams. Yet, in the…
What are your chances of collecting a full set of DreamWorks Heroes Action Cards?
There’s a highly infectious illness sweeping through the country at the moment. It’s called DreamWorks…
Automaticity and why it’s important to learn your ‘times tables’
Recent press articles, both here and in Canada, suggest that the debate over teaching mathematics…
What have we Achieved?
We have a spat between our tertiary engineering schools and our secondary schools/NZQA. It's time…
A brighter future for mathematics education in New Zealand
In the NZ Herald, Peter Hughes asks how TIMSS 2011 and PISA 2009 can produce…
Review of March 2013
I thought I would try to collate some of the interesting and thought-provoking comments on…