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Message from NZAMT received from NZQA 13th October regarding the 2016 External Examinations for AS1.3, 1.6 and 1.12:

We have had notification from NZQA that they believe schools will find the Level 1 examination papers for November consistent with their expectations and recent previous assessment of the identified standards.听 Hence schools can confidently use recent past NZQA examinations听 (since the 2011 realignment of L1 standards) in preparing their students for the external examinations.

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We hope you are enjoying teaching students to discover stories in data, and to practice their statistical literacy skills.

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Term 2 Updates:

• Free online professional development courses: 听&补尘辫;
• :听Student data for all standards by Robyn Headifen
• TED resource: 听听&补尘辫;
• video. (1.5 hours)

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The 91茄子 team

See how your students could soon be using statistics and models to predict the future.

There are examples of and what statisticians have done to help solve problems with data.

Some ideas to help students reach their statistics and statistical literacy learning goals:

Primary and Intermediate:

• :听Bring the real world 听into your classroom:听Learning from people in industry to highlight when, where and why we need to learn this!
• :听Technology for graphing and interpreting data.听Have you checked out the听?
• 听 A lesson plan.
• (McPhee & Makar, 2014)听Professional Reading for numeracy teachers.

Secondary:

• 听&补尘辫;听: Technology for secondary statistics teaching.
• :听on careers in statistics.
• (Makar, K. & Rubin, A., 2009) Professional reading:
• :听Lillian Grace was the plenary speaker at both Canterbury and Auckland Statistics Teachers day. The Figure site allows everyone听be an explorer and user of data. If you or your students want data to answer a burning question this is the place to contact.
• Have all your classes been involved? Experiencing the census at all levels of the curriculum is important for students to demonstrate that they are “managing variation” and are involved in every aspect of data collection and creation.
• : What about 听running a poster competition for Statistics week?! 听Below are some examples from oversea’s, how can we improve on these?
• 听live!听Robyn Headifen has suggested following the cycling听so much much great data!

What other ideas do you have?

How are you linking with your colleagues in other subjects? How do they approach statistical literacy and use statistics in scientific (both social and the physical sciences) investigations?

Do you have an Investing in Educational Success project to share or would like to begin? Also let us know of any cool Stats Apps you’re using with your students.

Finally, a big thanks to teachers who are using the share resources function on CAS.

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The 91茄子 Team

This first term newsletter is important reading for all secondary mathematics and statistics teachers.

Upcoming workshops for current PLD are advertised and useful links and tips are provided by Derek Smith and the national facilitation team.

Secondary Mathematics and Statistics Newsletter Term 1 2016

Derek has also sent through some other interesting links that didn’t make it into the newsletter:

Some reminders:

NZAMT14 Conference workshop resources

2015 Ernest Duncan Award Winner Ricky Pedersen has offered to make his听Critical Thinking Booklet听available for download.

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Interesting bits and pieces

Some research on happiness in schools for your interest. It would be interesting to ask your faculty members, and yourself, 鈥淲hat makes you happy during the school day or during a lesson?鈥�

Some interesting data sets from a NZ long term study:

TED Talks links to videos

An ERO publication

Learning geometry via Origami

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Why is learning fraction arithmetic so difficult? From STEM Learning

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Learning maths through song and dance

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Hope that your听athletics and Swimming sports day are progessing well while the country enjoys the settled weather we are enjoying.

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Our hearts go out to the people in Canterbury as they wrestle with nature.

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N盲ku i roto i ng盲 mihi, n盲

Derek

Derek Smith|Mathematics National Co-ordinator/Central South Facilitator (Secondary)|Education Support Services|

Te Tapuae o Rehua Consortium听|University of Otago College of Education|021 913 150|

We hope you all had a great summer holiday and are looking forward to teaching lots of innovative, well-designed statistics lessons this year.

To help you out we start the year off with a great new data card resource听for听interactive and effective statistics lessons created by Anna Martin, and some helpful tips on describing Time series trends prepared by the Mathematics and Statistics Facilitators and the NZSA Education Committee.

Returning students may ask you to review their 2015 external exam scripts. Derek Smith has provided links to the , l and . Please use this information to inform students if听they should proceed with the reconsideration process.听Please use your professional judgement with the question听totals and overall total (Grade Score marking used) in the November Externals,听which is not the same as that used for the assessment of the听e-Mcat/MCAT.听The assessment conditions for the 2016 externals are also now available on the NZQA website. , , .

As you and your colleagues review and reflect on the 2015 year, we hope 91茄子 delivered useful content and information. 91茄子 aims to provide the most up to date, statistics teaching resources and information, in the news, by NZSA or other Statistical forums or on the internet. If you want a 鈥渉eads up鈥� on what to read, watch or do this year the best place to start is right here on 91茄子.

If you ever think that our heads haven鈥檛 been up high enough and we seem to have missed something that鈥檚 coming soon, please let us know:听censusatschoolnz@gmail.com

Please forward this email to any new colleagues who may not receive our weekly emails, these can help keep your colleagues up-to-date with the resources and information on 91茄子.

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Rachel, Chris and Anne

Congratulations to Associate Professor Maxine Pfannkuch of the University of Auckland for receiving a lifetime achievement award from the NZSA. Maxine has written many wonderful resources here for 91茄子.

If you studied statistics at secondary school in the last quarter of a century, your learning was influenced by Maxine Pfannkuch of the Department of Statistics. Associate Professor Pfannkuch studies how people, mostly school students, draw statistical conclusions from data and from graphics, and looks for ways to teach them to do it better. Her work has led to many improvements to high-school statistics curricula here and overseas.

And Associate Professor Pfannkuch鈥檚 contribution has been recognised with a lifetime achievement award from the 68-year-old New Zealand Statistical Association (NZSA). The Campbell Award commemorates Professor James Towers Campbell (1906-1994), who was the first president of the NZSA. The award requires an 鈥渆xceptional鈥� publication record, and 鈥減rolonged and outstanding鈥� contribution to statistical education as well as involvement in 鈥渕ajor, innovative research projects that have direct relevance to New Zealand鈥�.