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Mathematics and statistics
Version date: 14 September 2018
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What are mathematics and statistics about?
Mathematics and statistics
Mathematics and statistics
Mathematics is the exploration and use of patterns and relationships in quantities, space, and time. Statistics is the exploration and use of patterns and relationships in data. These two disciplines are related, but they use different ways of thinking and solving problems. Both equip students with effective means for investigating, interpreting, explaining, and making sense of the world.
Mathematicians and statisticians use symbols, graphs, and diagrams to help them find and communicate patterns and relationships, and they create models to represent both real-life and hypothetical situations. These situations are drawn from a wide range of social, cultural, scientific, technological, health, environmental, and economic contexts.
See Mathematics and statistics in the New Zealand Curriculum Online.
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Last updated September 14, 2018