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Most children have trouble understanding decimals - they confuse them with whole numbers or with fractions. Here are some concrete suggestions for how children can use their everyday knowledge to...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The introduction of information skills into the New Zealand Curriculum has signalled a change in direction for education from teacher-centred learning to student-centred learning. However, before...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
There is growing pressure for all teachers to become teachers of values. Here are some ways in which mathematics teachers can incorporate values education into their existing mathematics programme...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Food technology in New Zealand's new technology curriculum is more than cooking and food handling. Here are some practical ways of implementing and assessing food technology.
| Year published: 1998 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
How is the teacher to convert these private worries into informed and constructive thinking? It seems to be assumed that the two crucial components of education on nuclear issues are to increase...
| Year published: 1985 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The call for citizenship education as a compulsory part of the curriculum has met with a varied response worldwide. While everyone would espouse the ideals of ensuring our young people grow up to...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
Despite New Zealand students performing well in reading and literacy there is some concern that boys, particularly nine-year-olds, are not performing as well as could be expected.
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Curriculum Matters is, for me, a long overdue publication. Its genesis is due to the thinking of our colleagues in the Ministry of Education who wanted to encourage debate about curriculum, in...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: CM2005_1_001.pdf | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
Investigating suspected underachievement in literacy in an intermediate school revealed that the levels of achievement in reading and writing were indeed a concern, especially the writing of Years 5–...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Audio Visual Achievement in Literacy, Language and Learning (AVAILLL), an innovative reading programme that supplements normal classroom literacy programmes, has proved to be extremely effective in...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article