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A key way students develop their statistical understanding at primary school level is by undertaking data-rich investigations. This article suggests scaffolding students through a statistical enquiry...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Three years ago Ruth Round began teaching her Year 4, mixed-ability class in ways that made music central to her teaching while at the same time integrating The New Zealand Curriculum focusing in...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
There’s a lot that primary school teachers can do to help develop their students’ science learning. This article sets out straightforward possibilities, including encouraging students to observe the...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In New Zealand the majority of students attend schools that reflect the dominant mainstream context, yet these schools include indigenous Māori and learners from diverse cultural and language...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
A research project in this early childhood centre investigated the (school) key competency relating to others. The teachers were particularly interested in this key competency because relationships,...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
International comparative studies offer unique opportunities to interrogate and challenge embedded practices within education systems. In this paper we explore the textbook presentation of fractions...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
When one student was personally touched by the 2009 Samoan tsunami, Omanu School in the Bay of Plenty launched an aid project that galvanised students into learning that was integrated across many...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The second of three articles on research as a student learning activity. Rosemary Hipkins explores the idea of "information literacy" and argues that different school subjects provide...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Keeping a journal in the mathematics classroom has clear benefits. In this study a group of students kept journals on their mathematics lessons and were found to become more regular and deeper...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2005_2_050.pdf | Content type: Set article
This article discusses the merits of using cancer as a context for teaching about social and ethical issues. It is based on part of a larger research project that investigated the teaching and...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article