- Developing Tasks with Secondary Teachers
The aim of our project was to support secondary teachers from six different regions of New Zealand to collaboratively share resources with each other to enhance their ability to design and implement cognitively demanding, culturally sustaining tasks that engage students in mathematical practices and support students in learning key mathematical concepts.…
- The transition to equitable grouping practices in junior secondary mathematics classrooms
Most New Zealand secondary mathematics classes are organised in ways that group students with relatively similar achievement. However, contrary to beliefs that these grouping practices improve achievement, ‘ability grouping’ exacerbates existing achievement differences. Māori, Pāsifika, and low-SES students are over-represented in ‘bottom’ classes which frequently experience a limited and limiting…
Most New Zealand secondary mathematics classes are organised in ways that group students with relatively similar achievement. However, contrary to beliefs that these grouping practices improve achievement, ‘ability grouping’ exacerbates existing achievement differences. Māori, Pāsifika, and low-SES students are over-represented in ‘bottom’ classes which frequently experience a limited and limiting…