Education Perfect and NCEA / Year 11 Maths (NZ)
EP have developed changes to our content to support the changes to NCEA Level 1 standards. This article outlines these changes, and what you can expect to see within this content.
Nau mai, haere mai! Tālofa lava. Mālō e lelei. Kia orāna. Fakaalofa lahi atu. Mālō ni.
What’s happening?
Aotearoa New Zealand is going through the biggest educational changes in a generation. School leaders are being asked to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, leading and encouraging their staff to actively protect te reo, tikanga, and mātauranga Māori.
Teachers are being asked to design and plan programmes of learning that incorporate mana ōrite mō te mātauranga Māori, often for the first time.
EP is here to support schools and teachers through this difficult transition. We are committed to Aotearoa’s schools, teachers, students and Te Mātaiaho’s calls to action.
What has EP done?
Consultation
We have listened and responded to teachers’ feedback and concerns. We have also consulted with the Ministry of Education, and while we have followed the progress of the NCEA standards, we have also based our work on the refreshed NZC and subject Learning Matrix.
As such, we believe our new Year 11 Maths resources will cater to all schools, whether you choose to follow the new NCEA Level 1 immediately or not.
Initial Release
We have 45 new lessons for you. They include a focus on the key NCEA change, mana ōrite mō te mātauranga Māori / equal status for Māori knowledges and the need for Aotearoa NZ contexts. We are excited to share:
- Lessons on Māori measurement, Māori number systems, the ethics and tikanga of data.
- Glossaries that highlight the need to understand vocabulary as well as introducing te reo Māori, explanations aided by animations and interactivity, discussion points where te ao Māori and Mathematics clearly intersect and intertwine.
Writers
We also included mātanga and kaiako Māori as writers of our content and have used cultural advisors for quality assurance at every step. We make every endeavour to assure cultural safety for our team and writers as well as the teachers and students who will use these rauemi / resources.
We are grateful to the mātanga for sharing their mātauranga. We share these lessons with pride but also with care. You can use these lessons with confidence, but if you have specific concerns, please let us know.
You will continue to have access to the lessons you know and trust, many of which have been refreshed during this build. This makes for a complete course of learning at Year 11 / NCEA Level 1. We also plan to build out a number of practice assessments based on the new NCEA standards for 2024.
Teacher Guide
Curriculum Alignment
We have tried to capture the move to more holistic, thematic units of work - and away from an assessment-driven focus by leaning on the refreshed NZC for Mathematics and Statistics and the subject Learning Matrix.
As a result, we have structured the NCEA Level 1 content within the new NZC strands, making it easy for kaiako and tauira to navigate.
To further support those teachers who are transitioning into using the new NCEA L1 and its standards, we have used banners in our new lessons to indicate how each aligns to the four new standards, including lessons that overlap multiple standards.
Please see an example below. In our imagery, we have tried to capture the essence of The Learning Area's whakataukī:
Kei hopu tōu ringa ki te aka tāepa, engari kia mau ki te aka matua.
Cling to the main vine, not the loose one.
e.g. AS 1.3 Interpret and apply mathematical and statistical information in context
Learn more about the narrative of our imagery.
Lesson structure
Our Learning Objectives are structured using the SOLO taxonomy, adding another level of differentiation within the lessons. This structural design also helps students progress from introductory to a deeper understanding.
Localisation
Remember EP is also fully customisable. You can create and edit your own content for your local context and students.
For example, you could create an assessment on a topic relevant to your area to collect data on river levels or īnanga / whitebait catches. You can also swap out contexts to localise them e.g. the geometry of your school’s tukutuku patterns, mapping the distances between local marae.
You can even adapt EP lessons entirely - e.g. to introduce a local historically important item or to reflect the sporting prowess of current or ex-students.