Primary schools have kicked off the academic year with a more demanding maths curriculum, and early indicators suggest a significant drop in students meeting expected standards.
While 42 percent of final-year primary students previously met the old benchmarks, under the new system, only 20 percent would qualify.
Educators acknowledge the clarity of the new framework but worry that the steep learning curve “might demoralise both students and teachers”, according to a report in state-funded media.
Massey University professor Gaven Martin, who helped shape the curriculum overhaul, defended its structured approach, arguing that accelerating learning was necessary to prevent students from falling further behind. He believed there was no time to waste, advocating for a faster pace to ensure all students receive a rigorous maths education.
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I recently went to my local bakery and purchased 4 x bread rolls at 0.80c each and handed the young lass 2 x $2 coins, she was totally baffled at what to do due to a lack of any fundamental arithmetic education, with no card to swipe and no calculator lying around she was lost and gave me nearly $3 change and the teachers tell us that they work so hard that they deserve 12 weeks paid holiday every year so my solution is to grade the teachers on the students results and pay them accordingly, that would get their attention, another thing sadly lacking is male teachers, there should be as many males as females teaching in schools and the head and the deputy should be opposite sexes.
I sooooo agree on the gender disparity at schools.
I wouldn’t give a rat’s arse if these ‘female’ teachers would be able to do their job, but between woke and unedjucated is only the void in which our children are brainwashed.