New Zealand Association of mathematics Teachers

Can your students win $6000 in New Zealand's Next Top Engineering Scientist?

 This fun and challenging day long competition is for teams of three to four senior students, who have interests in mathematics and science.

The 2013 competition will run near the start of term 3, on Saturday the 10th of August. The problem is revealed at 9am in the morning and students work in their teams to provide a solution by 6pm of that day. First prize is $6,000 plus there are two runner-up prizes of $2,000. For more information and to register your team(s) see the Department of Engineering Science website at the University of Auckland:  Registrations close Friday 2nd of August.

Thanks for making this years Maths Quest Poster competition such a great success. We have over 400 entries to judge and once the process has been completed the winners will be notified.  Good Luck!

Maths Week Resources are now available for use in classrooms.

These can be purchased individually for $30 each or buy all 3 for $75. Send the money to NZAMT and once the money is received you will be sent the resources access code electronically.

Daily Dollar package. The most popular activity used in Mathsweek. It comprises of 5 pdfs for 875 questions on 387 pages covering 5 Levels from the last 7 years 2006 – 2012

Survivor Series package. 175 days worth of questions on 585 pages covering 5 levels over 7 years 2006 – 2012

Amazing Race package. 15 races with 175 tasks covering 7 years 2006 – 2013.

Each of these comes with answers and teacher notes.

New Secure Resources Available

During the end of term 1 break some teachers voluntarily prepared some assessment tasks that can be used by schools in their practice exams for the end of year or at another time appropriate to them. These are secure tasks and they must not be allowed to leave the classroom with the students. If the student needs more practice with this style of question they should use other sources for such examples.

At this stage there are assessment tasks that have been uploaded to the NZAMT website for the level 1 and level 2 externally assessed standards. These will be in the secure assessment part of the web site.

There is one task for each standard at level one and level two except for 91027 (the MCAT) where there are two tasks. There may be a further task for each of level 2 algebra and statistics later in the term. The level 3 statistics tasks are with the checkers and the level 3 calculus tasks are being modified following checking.

Every effort has been made to have the assessment tasks mathematically error free but time has not always allowed for papers to be rechecked after they have been modified. As part of good assessment practice it is expected that the teachers will check both the assessment task and schedule before using the task. In checking of tasks, in the NZAMT process, we focus on the goodness of fit to the standard as we see it. The ownership of language and contexts remain with the writer. Again it is expected that exercising good assessment practice this will be checked as to appropriateness for the students in a given school before using the task. We all know when questions are changed there are times when errors occur. Please ensure that you do check the tasks before using them.