91茄子

Kia orana all,

Not long before the seniors leave聽for external achievement examinations study!

1: L1 Internal exemplars updated on NZQA
These have been posted, except for 91033….not sure why the latter is not there yet.

2: Scholarships for tertiary studies

Grouped the scholarships in three categories:
Company-funded 鈥� scholarships from DairyNZ, Fulton Hogan, Hubbards, New Zealand Steel, Orion Health, Plant & Food Research, Rakon, Scion, Transpower, Transfield Worley, Westland Milk Products.
Other organisations 鈥� Royal Society of New Zealand, EPECentre, Zonta International, Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ), Australasian Hydrographic Society, NZ Institute of Surveyors, Edna Waddell Scholarships for Women in Technology & Engineering.
M膩ori + Pasifika 鈥� scholarships specifically for M膩ori and Pasifika students offered by trusts, iwi and other organisations.
other support:
Tertiary providers 鈥� polytechnics, institutes of technology and universities 鈥� are another good source of information, and generally have a Scholarships Office that can help you look for financial support for your studies:
University Scholarships Offices
Polytechnic and Institute of Technology Scholarships Offices
See also:
Cadetships 鈥� find out how you can complete a diploma or degree in engineering, surveying, CAD draughting or IT while working in industry.
Course Finder 鈥� use our database of tertiary-level technology, engineering and science courses to explore what and where to study.
BreakOut is the website with the most comprehensive lists of awards, scholarships and grants. To read it online you have to pay a subscription but paper copies are held at most libraries and citizens advice bureaus (CAB) around the country.
StudyLink 鈥� information about student loans and allowances.

3: WMA November events
November has lots of treasures in store.
Friday 14th HOD Day at Gear Homestead 聽9.00 – 3.00 聽 $40聽Registration_forms_2014 HOD Day

Thurs 20th PRT Day at The Dowse 聽9.00 – 3.00 聽 Free 聽SignupsheetforVUWgraduatesPRTDay

Wed 26th 聽 Ed day at NZSA conference VUW 聽1.00 – 4.00 聽$40 聽NZSA Conference Stat Education and Applications invite

Thurs 27th Maths & Stats teacher day at VUW 聽9.00 – 3.00 聽Free聽MathsStatsTeacherDayProgramme (1)

Note that the MMP day pencilled in for 1 November has been cancelled.
WMA contact: Bruce Welsh maths@welsh.co.nz

Kia pai to r膩
Derek

Mathematics National Co-ordinator/Central South Facilitator (Secondary)
Education Support Services
University of Otago College of Education
PO Box 56 Dunedin 9054
Mau ki te ako-Te Tapuae o Rehua Consortium
M: 021 913 150
E: derek.smith@otago.ac.nz
Middle Leaders Website
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Mathematics resources
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The University of Auckland 聽and Auckland Mathematics Association present a series of Plenary sessions and workshops. The theme this year is “Communicating Statistics”

Registrations are now open for the annual Statistics teacher鈥檚 day. Please register online.

All information about the day, including workshop information and online registration can be found at:

We recommend that you don鈥檛 wait for school approval to attend before you register.

You can withdraw your registration with no penalty as long as we know by Monday, 17 November.

Registration for workshops will be on a first-in, first鈥搒erved basis.

Please note the change in venue to Epsom Campus this year.

Important news about the New Zealand leg of the ISLP poster competition.

The closing date for the has been extended to 28th February 2015. If you have not already done so, please register your school by contacting the NZ country co-ordinator- Emma Mawby- emma.mawby@stats.govt.nz.

Entries are being accepted from now until the new closing date.

Emma Mawby
New Zealand Country Co-ordinator for ISLP

CANTERBURY’S FLAGSHIP STATISTICS EVENT IS COMING!

The CMA presents another Statistics Teachers’ day: “Fostering Statistical Confidence”

When: Thursday the 13th of November, 8:30 – 4pm.

Where: University of Canterbury Undercroft 101 ()

Who: Lillian Grace as our Plenary Speaker and many more acts to be confirmed!

STATS DAY 2014 FLYER

Cost: $20 members, $40 non-members (includes 2014 membership)

FOOD KINDLY PROVIDED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY.

Please put this date in your diaries and !

Kristian Giles

Secretary for the CMA

We are currently preparing for 91茄子 2015/16! The current survey (2013/2014) will remain open until the end of the 2014 school year.

The new questionnaire will be available to preview later this year, along with more details about registering and important dates.

Thank you to all the teachers who have provided ideas and feedback for next year’s questionnaire.

Here is a link for the聽Mathematics Facilitator (Secondary) 2014 survey.

The URL to the survey is:聽

The replies that we receive will help craft and focus on the demands that Middle leaders and teachers are experiencing and require support in next year.

Can you please aim to complete the survey by the end of this term (Last day聽26th September).

The 2013 survey was very聽useful in crafting the聽Mathematics Facilitator (Secondary)聽PLD for this year, e.g. the Literacy/Mathematics workshops would not have happened if there had not been the demand shown from the survey.

Jake Wills from Westlake Boys High School has created a Youtube channel for those of you getting started with NZGrapher with some tutorial videos on it. You can access this here:聽

Recent changes include:

• Added in informal confidence intervals for dot plots (this if for the Year 12 internal)
• Changed the way the labels for this button appear as well to make it more clear what each one does.

The following changes have also been made in an attempt to get students to write about what they see rather than what is calculated as a first step:

• Scatter plots no longer automatically add in the trend line, this must be added in by clicking the ‘Regression Line’ button.
• Dot plots no longer automatically show the summary statistics or box and whiskers, this must be added in by clicking the ‘Summaries’ or ‘Box Plots’ buttons.

听补苍诲听聽are聽free for you to use. If you want Jake to create a folder for you so you can upload your own datasets for all your students to access easily without having to download them and re-upload them, contact Jake at MathsNZ.

New Zealand teachers if you have not yet used Tinker plots here is your chance! Used in conjunction with Ruth Kaniuk’s resources this will enhance the way you teach probability concepts. Use the author advanced search function on C@S to find all of Ruth’s resources.

Today we are releasing Version 2.2 of TinkerPlots.聽聽This is a special, free version, which will expire in a year聽聽鈥斅�August 31, 2015.

To start the downloading process

Go to聽the聽and click on the聽Download TinkerPlots聽link in the right hand panel.聽You’ll fill out a form. Shortly after submitting it, you’ll get an email with a link for downloading.

Help others find the TinkerPlots Download page

If you have a website, blog, or use a social media site, please help us get the word out so others can find the new TinkerPlots Download page. You could mention that you are using TinkerPlots 2.2 and link to聽.

Why is this an expiring version?

As we explained in聽, until January of 2014, TinkerPlots was published and sold by Key Curriculum, a division of McGraw Hill Education.聽Their decision to cease publication caught us off guard, and we have yet to come up with an alternative publishing plan.聽We created this special expiring version to meet the needs of users until we can get a new publishing plan in place.

What will happen after version 2.2 expires?

By August 2015, we will either have a new publisher lined up, or we will create another free version.聽聽What is holding us up right now is our negotiations with the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who currently owns TinkerPlots.聽聽Once they have decided about their future involvement with TinkerPlots, we can complete our discussions with various publishing partners.

If I have versions 2.0 or 2.1 should I delete them?

No, you should keep them.聽You already paid for these, and they are not substantively different from version 2.2.聽If and when a new version of TinkerPlots is ready for sale, you may not want to pay for it.聽聽So keep your early version that you’ve already paid for.
Cliff and Craig

Michelle Dalrymple of Cashmere High School and Royal Society teacher fellow, has edited and put into a user friendly format 2 large data sets from Statistics New Zealand and one from C@S.

These are now available in the data viewer on C@S and to sample from.

Birth SURF 2006

91茄子 summary

• 10,000 observations (synthesized newborn children)
• 29 variables 鈥� 20 categorical and nine numeric variables

NZ Income Survey SURF 2011

91茄子 summary

• 29447 observations (synthesized people)
• Eight variables 鈥� five categorical, 1 grouped numeric (age bands) and two numeric variables

NOTE: These are large data sets suitable for exploratory use with Achievement Standards
91035 (1.10), 91036 (1.11), 91264 (2.9), 91581 (3.9) and 91582 (3.10)

Census at School 91茄子 Sets (UK, NZ, OZ, CA)

Comparison for these 4 countries is now possible.