Maths resources

This resource encourages students to apply their maths skills and knowledge within the context of financial sustainability. Students explore investments/whakangao, Insurance/inihua, KiwiSaver and retirement/whakatā.

Exploring financial sustainability through maths and statistics is an integrated, cross-curricular resource and can be used in multiple ways. Related resources are available for health and social sciences.

There are a range of resources to choose from, so schools and teachers can design programmes that allow:

Students to work at their own pace using a student planner
Teachers to design a programme that suits department, faculty or whole-school planning over a few weeks or a term. This will vary from school to school.

Important readings:

Financial sustainability resource introduction.
Pedagogy and methodology overview for the frameworks underpinning the development of this resource.

Mathematics and statistics achievement objectives

In a range of meaningful contexts, students will be engaged in thinking mathematically and statistically. They will solve problems and model situations that require them to:

Understand addition and subtraction of fractions, decimals and integers
Find fractions, decimals and percentages of amounts expressed as whole numbers, simple fractions and decimals
Apply simple linear proportions, including ordering fractions
Know the equivalent decimal and percentage forms for everyday fractions
Know the relative size and place-value structure of positive and negative integers, and decimals to three places
Form and solve simple linear equations

Reason with linear proportions
Understand operations on fractions, decimals, percentages and integers
Use rates and ratios
Know commonly used fraction, decimal and percentage conversions
Know and apply standard form, significant figures, rounding and decimal-place value
Form and solve linear and simple quadratic equations

Convert between metric units, using whole numbers and commonly used decimals
Use side or edge lengths to find the perimeters and areas of rectangles, parallelograms and triangles, and the volumes of cuboids.

Select and use appropriate metric units for length, area, volume and capacity, weight (mass), temperature, angle and time, with the awareness that measurements are approximate
Convert between metric units using decimals
Deduce and use formulae to find the perimeters and areas of polygons and the volumes of prisms
Find the perimeters and areas of circles and composite shapes and the volumes of prisms, including cylinders