Teaching and learning activities

Teaching and learning activities are located in a number of places in the mathematics and statistics teaching and learning guide. As well as the more detailed teaching and learning activities, there are shorter ideas for teaching and learning in these places too.

Links from major pages or sections

Teaching and learning activities can be found:

• under the different pedagogies described in the pedagogy section
• under the different competencies described in the key competencies section
• in the different learning programmes described in the learning programme design section
• under the heading 'Possible context elaborations' within each achievement objective – this section in particular includes web links and shorter ideas for teaching and learning.

AO references for specific activities

Level 6

• Activity: 100m sprint times – NA6-7, NA6-8, S6-1
• Activity: Cell phone pricing plan – NA6-7
• Activity: Culturally locating our students in the class – S6-1, S6-3
• Activity: Forensic formulas – NA6-5, NA6-7, NA6-8
• Activity: How does your cell phone measure up? – GM6-1, GM6-2, GM6-3, GM6-5
• Activity: Measuring with digital pictures – NA6-1, GM6-1, GM6-5
• Activity: Straight line pictures – NA6-7, GM6-8, GM6-9
• Activity: Water woes – GM6-1, GM6-2, GM6-3, S6-1

Level 7

• Activity: Chocolate statistical literacy – S7-3
• Activity: Chocolate tasting experiment – S7-4
• Activity: Coffee costs – M7-2, M7-7
• Activity: Cool coffee – M7-2, M7-6
• Activity: Memory experiment – S7-1
• Activity: Skid marks – M7-2, M7-6, M7-7, M7-8

Level 8

• Activity: BBT exact values – M8-6, M8-7
• Activity: BBT fractals and complex numbers – M8-2, M8-9, M8-10
• Activity: BBT sweet spot – M8-1
• Activity: Integration and differentiation – M8-2, M8-10, M8-12
• Activity: Zombies – M8-4, M8-10, M8-11, M8-12
• Activity: Fair spinners – S8-4
• Activity: Fooling the teacher – S8-4
• Activity: Greenpeace – S8-1, S8-2, S8-3
• Activity: How many babies – S8-4
• Activity: I am just not fast enough – S8-1, S8-2, S8-3
• Activity: IE users have low IQ – S8-3
• Activity: Lateness – choice or chance – S8-4
• Activity: Legal driving age – S8-1, S8-2, S8-3
• Activity: Lego exercise – S8-4
• Activity: Tell me how risky – S8-4

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AOs with additional teaching and learning resources

S6-1

• Growing scatterplots
• Sleeping sheep
• You can’t fool me by giving me a cheap cola
• Do boy babies tend to be heavier at birth than girl babies?
• Does practice make perfect?

S6-2

•   Using critical questions to evaluate an article

S6-3

• Fair dice
• Paper, scissors, rock
• Quiz or no quiz
• Exploring spinners
• Sum of two dice

S7-1

• Kiwi kapers 1
• Kiwi kapers 2
• Sampling stuff
• Sampling stuff 2

S7-3

• Blood alcohol levels

S7-4

• Armspans
• Drawing counters from a bag
• Number of cereal packets

S8-1

• Water taste test
• Memory test
• Fitness levels

S8-4

• Student activities for:
  • independent, combined and conditional events
  • situations that involve elements of chance
  • applying distributions such as the Poisson, binomial, and normal.

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Learning experiences activities

This updated material is from the Wellington Teacher Support Services books of the same name.

Level 6 learning experiences

Drake, M., MacEwan, L., Romana, H., McIntyre, R., & Harvey, R. (1995). Learning experiences for level 6 mathematics. Teacher Support Services, Wellington.

Level 7 learning experiences

Drake, M., Francis, J., Beckett, C., Coulston, A., & McIntyre, R. (1995). Learning experiences for level 7 mathematics. Teacher Support Services, Wellington.

Level 8 learning experiences

Arnold, P., Drake, M., Francis, J., Romana, H., McIntyre, R., & Harvey, R. (1995). Learning experiences for level 8 mathematics. Teacher Support Services, Wellington.

Last updated September 6, 2018

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