What has love got to do with maths? This morning at the Twitter chat for teachers, (#bfc630nz) the discussion question was, How and what will you teach your students about life this year? As I lurked I was impressed at … Continue reading →
What has love got to do with maths? This morning at the Twitter chat for teachers, (#bfc630nz) the discussion question was, How and what will you teach your students about life this year? As I lurked I was impressed at … Continue reading →
The Numeracy Development Project has influenced the teaching of mathematics in New Zealand. It has changed the language people use to talk about mathematical understanding, introducing the terms “multiplicative thinking”, “part-whole” and “proportional reasoning” to the teacher toolkit. It has … Continue reading →
Statistics enriches everything! In many school systems in the world, subjects are taught separately. In primary school, children learn reading and writing, maths and social studies at different times of the day. But more than that, many topics within subjects … Continue reading →
Last week I had a lovely experience. I visited the Hamilton Observatory and Zoo as part of a Statistics excursion with the Year 13 statistics class of Papamoa College. The trip was organised to help students learn about where data … Continue reading →
The historical research uses statistics since ever. And Official Statistics are a favourite source for quantitative historiography and digital humanities. ‘Statistics are more than just numbers’ Statistics New Zealand depicts the history of the capital Wellington with a popular format – an infographic. ‘In 1865, following a period of heated debate, an independent tribunal of … Continue reading More than just Numbers
The historical research uses statistics since ever. And Official Statistics are a favourite source for quantitative historiography and digital humanities. ‘Statistics are more than just numbers’ Statistics New Zealand depicts the history of the capital Wellington with a popular format – an infographic. ‘In 1865, following a period of heated debate, an independent tribunal of … Continue reading More than just Numbers
I was downloading data from the Statistics New Zealand website the other evening, and was alerted to the fact that an interesting event was about to occur. Here's my screen-capture of the N.Z. "Population Clock" about an hour later:© 2015, David ...
Once upon a time there was a rule of thumb that there were 20 sheep in New Zealand for every person living there. Yep, I kid you not. The old adage used to be "3 million people; 60 million sheep".I liked to think of this as another important "Great Rat...
