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A revised essence statement and achievement objectives are available. Feedback gathered during 2005 has been generally positive.
A draft example of material that could support teaching and learning in Mathematics and statistics is now available on Curriculum Project Online.
Please note: the achievement objectives in this curriculum are in draft form and as such are part of the consultation and feedback process.
It is proposed the draft national curriculum will be published mid year and distributed to all schools. Following this, the project will enter a consultation phase in which the Ministry of Education will be seeking feedback.
Mathematics Reference Group Meeting (31 May 2006)
Mathematics Focus Groups Meeting (1 June 2006)
A revised essence statement and achievement objectives are now available. Feedback gathered between July and December 2005 has been generally positive.
The Statistics Association of New Zealand executive attend regular meetings with the curriculum facilitator. As a result, the language used in the statistics strand has been simplified, although key words have been retained as these will have a specific meaning when the new curriculum is taught and learned. A glossary will be available next year.
Second tier material has been drafted for some achievement objectives and strands. Second tier material for statistics is being developed during December 2005.
Second tier material has been drafted for some achievement objectives and some strands.
The emerging curriculum is currently undergoing various audits. Some of these audits are to ensure that the following future-focused themes are apparent:
Other audits are concentrating on diversity, Māori in the mainstream, ESOL (English for speakers of other languages), financial literacy, and special education.
A draft curriculum will be published in 2006 for feedback and trialling.
Second tier material has been drafted for some achievement objectives and some strands.
NZ Curriculum Marautanga Project workshops took place during the NZAMT Annual Conference in September 2005.
The emerging curriculum is currently undergoing various audits to identify cross-disciplinary connections, and to ensure that the following future-focused themes are apparent:
The Reference Group meeting on 20 June 2005 reconsidered the
Mathematics draft essence statement (Word, 27 KB)
. The achievement objectives may be viewed on the Curriculum Project Online.
Second tier material has been drafted for some achievement objectives and some strands.
There will be Curriculum Marautanga Project Workshops at NZAMT Annual Conference in September 2005.
A new section on NZ Maths will provide information for the mathematics community. This link will be available soon.
The
Mathematics and statistics essence statement (version March 2005) (Word, 31 KB)
remains unchanged.
Draft material has been made available to the New Zealand Association of Mathematics Teachers (NZAMT), PPTA, NZEI, and other groups through Reference Group members.
The Reference Group meeting on 20 June 2005 will reconsider the draft essence statement and achievement objectives.
Statistics Association of New Zealand executive attend regular meetings with the Curriculum Facilitator.
Second tier material drafted for some achievement objectives and some strands – further writing in early June 2005.
There will be Curriculum Marautanga Project Workshops at NZAMT Annual Conference in September 2005.
There have been recent meetings to complete writing of draft achievement objectives for levels 7 and 8.
A process has been established to write the achievement objectives. The writing team met and considered the main features of the existing curriculum that they would want preserved. They then identified the key threads (big ideas) that would run through each strand. These were then compared with the essence statement and the literature reviews, and then further refined.
The
Mathematics and statistics essence statement, March 2005 (Word, 31 KB)
has received general agreement from the mathematics community to date. It has recently been amended to include specific reference to the emphasis on thinking and to the mathematical processes.
It is recommended that the existing six strands be collapsed into three strands: number and algebra, geometry and measurement, and statistics with the processes built into these strands where appropriate.
Three writing groups have been set up to draft achievement objectives for:
The groups have drafted achievement objectives for levels 1–6 across all the strands, taking into account experience in implementing the current curriculum, norm based assessment data (for example NEMP, and the New Zealand curriculum exemplars and research into learning progressions. Work on levels 7 and 8 is continuing.
Here is a summary of the work so far of the Mathematics Reference Group.
The reference group met to review progress in achievement objective writing. International academics from Tasmania and Tenesee provided expert comment and supported the reference group.
Three writing groups were established to draft achievement objectives. Two groups wrote levels 1–4 and levels 4–8 achievement objectives for mathematical thinking (number to algebra and geometry and measurement), while a third group completed the statistics strand for levels 1–8.
The reference group met for two days. The agenda included the presentation of the literature reviews and an update on latest research and thinking in number and algebra.
They also considered the key competencies and the implications and impact of these on the mathematics curriculum development.
A proposal for the development and writing of a new mathematics curriculum was presented.
All numeracy project facilitators and mathematics advisors briefed on progress of curriculum project.
A discussion of the proposed new essential learning areas (ELA) name – Mathematics and Statistics – commenced at the curriculum project mathematics workshops in Auckland on 10 June and Christchurch on 23 June 2004.
Ministry of Education commissioned literature reviews:
The teaching and learning of geometry and measurement: A review of literature (Word, 296 KB)
and
The school statistics curriculum: Statistics and probability education literature review (Word, 279 KB)
.
The reference group met and confirmed the direction of three strands. The group recommended that the Ministry of Education commission literature reviews in the areas of spatial reasoning (geometry and measurement) and statistics.
Conference call between reference group members, giving feedback on the draft essence statement.
Group members consult on draft essence statement.
Discussions held around the current document, Mathematics in the New Zealand Curriculum, and the proposed name for the curriculum area – mathematics.
Consideration of the Waikato research report that informed the stocktake, Teachers' experiences in curriculum implementation: General curriculum, mathematics and technology and the reference group commenced initial consideration of essence statement.
There was a workshop at the New Zealand Association of Mathematics Teachers (NZAMT) annual conference (Hamilton), with presentations by Pauline McNeill and Mary Anne Mills.
The reference group considered the curriculum stocktake report, the recommendations relating to mathematics and, in relation to mathematics, the attitudes and skills and the future focus themes (scroll down to recommendation 5).
Consideration of
asTTle technical report 36: Mathematics curriculum framework and map – levels 2–6 (PDF, 260 KB)
– an analysis of the current curriculum statement.
Consultation with teacher organisations and mathematics education community about the composition of Mathematics Reference Group.
Published on: 13 Sep 2007
