Thank you to the teachers in Christchurch who kept our children safe
It's been a difficult week in Christchurch, under the world's gaze for all the wrong…
Maths Education Blog
researchED Auckland 2018
Isn't it crazy that, in 2018, we're still "working out what works" in Education? In…
NCEA – where less is more
Our national secondary school examination system actually rewards students for doing less work. It’s better to fail to try than to try and fail.
We can be better at maths
I'm a huge fan of Jim Mora, so it was a pleasure to be invited…
Maths I Can Do – a maths version of Shape of You by Ed Sheeran
It turns out Ed Sheeran's number knowledge is not so bad, but subtraction is his…
What are National Standards worth when our 10-year-olds are the worst in the world at multiplication?
Teachers and parents would naturally think that if a child is at or above the…
Have New Zealand’s PISA rankings really improved?
Unfortunately, upon looking more closely at the Mathematics scores, citing a move from 23rd place to 21st place as an improvement is pure fantasy.
Have New Zealand’s TIMSS maths scores really improved?
If we include the published margins of error, we see overlapping bands of achievement rather than increasing lines from 2010 to 2014.
MCAT (Mathematical Crisis, the Awful Truth) 2016
A systemic failure in mathematics education is playing out before our very eyes.
Analysis of the 2016 MCAT Exam (Day 2)
So just how different or difficult was the exam?