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Upcoming Seminar
What happens when mathematics and craft teachers work collaboratively?
Friday, 20 March 2026, 8 am (NZDT)
Discover how educators in Denmark paired craft and mathematics to create innovative, integrated lesson plans. Participants will receive English-language teaching materials and classroom resources.
Teaching Resources
Data Towers
This is a lovely adaptation of our Year 4-6 data cards.
Natural History Data Sets
A series of three large data sets with teaching notes:
- Blackbirds involves: averages, spread, graphical summaries, dealing with missing data, and general linear modelling.
- Magpies involves: averages, spread, graphical summaries, dealing with missing data, time series, and categorical data.
- Slugs involves: grouping data, contingency tables, and dealing with missing data.
Data Analysis Videos
The University of Otago hosts a series of in-depth data analysis videos, best suited for high school students. Examples include:
- Property sales in North Shore City involves: data cleaning, exploration, confidence intervals, and tests for differences between means.
- Rare threatened bird, the Rock Wren, involves: matched data samples, confidence intervals using the t-distribution, and bootstrapping.
- Adjusting to high altitude in the Himalayas involves: a designed study with repeated measures, confidence intervals, and tests on matched data.
CensusAtSchool Questionnaire
The questionnaire is open throughout the school year until the end of November. Get started
