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…
Tag: TIMSS
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.
A brighter future for mathematics education in New Zealand
In the NZ Herald, Peter Hughes asks how TIMSS 2011 and PISA 2009 can produce…