Mathematics Faculty

MATHEMATICS

Ko te Pangarau has had a year full of surprises and learning. The 2020 year had a great start with some new teachers to the department bringing freshness to the faculty. The revitalised junior programme entered its third year, continuing on its pathway to help juniors connect ideas and skills within the mathematics disciplines. Despite some major interruptions this year, it looks as though this junior programme is continuing to help students progress much further than expected during the two-year junior school period, helping them to prepare a solid foundation before studying towards NCEA qualitifcations. Lockdown resulted in kaiako quickly upskilling themselves and their tauira for an online learning environment. A lot of the skills learned were highly valuable and have been integrated into ‘normal school life’ post lockdown. After lockdown there was a lot of adjusting to life back in school with social distancing, as well as assessment catch ups for seniors. Most senior courses were still able to fit in all of their planned credits this year, demonstrating the commitment that both kaiako and tauira in the faculty have towards success. We are looking forward to hopefully a less disrupted 2021 where new skills and values from this year can be strengthened.