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Curious about Caxton Educational

Give your students the best advantage to excel at maths. They use our textbooks, while you have all our free online teacher support. YOUR STUDENTS DESERVE THIS!

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CaxEd publishes the popular NZ Curriculum Mathematics –Stages numeracy series and the award-winning NZ Curriculum Mathematics – Connecting All Strands series, which weaves all the NZ Curriculum strands into one Student Text per year (Years 3-8) establishing a solid backbone for your maths programme.

CaxEd off ers Online Teacher Support via their website to complement the Connecting All Strands texts.

Printable masters, interactive games, teaching strategies, and extra tasks for every chapter add more excellent activities for extension or extra practice to the highquality tasks in the books. of ways. The wide spectrum of arts education opportunities can help teachers integrate elements of the arts into their lessons. Similarly, the variety of disciplines within the arts allows teachers to incorporate STEM principles into their arts classrooms. Students who struggle with principles of maths and science, or find technology daunting may be encouraged to engage with these subjects through their arts practice. Shifting the focus from science or maths, for example, in isolation and adopting an integrated approach can make concepts more accessible.

Schools that have purchased this series can access these online resources at no cost.

The Ministry of Education’s latest study shows that textbooks outperform computer or tablet-based learning.

Email mel@caxed.co.nz or visit www.caxed.co.nz.

Recontextualising STEM learning within an arts framework can encourage students to engage with these concepts.

According to the Ministry of Education’s eLearning website, Te Kete Ipurangi, STEAM encourages students to: think flexibly; feel safe expressing new ideas; become familiar with handson learning; take ownership over learning; build teamwork; understand the connections between science, technology, engineering, arts and math and how they can work together and; foster curiosity about the world and how they can change it.

One of the documented benefits