One contributor to the CensusAtSchool/TataurangaKiTe Kura project is Dr Ian Christensen,聽who has been helping us to formulate the questionnaire in te reo M膩ori and also adapt CAS resources for the M膩ori-language p膩ngarau (maths) classroom. (You can search for those resources here).
Over the years, Ian has contributed to the development of the maths vocabulary and resources used in kura kaupapa (M膩ori-language schools). He works at a M膩ori language education and research organisation called , based in Palmerston North. He Kupenga Hao i te Reo has just published for the Ministry of Education a level 3 statistics textbook and accompanying teacher handbook called Te Tauanga (tauanga is the M膩ori word for statistics), which focuses on the statistics and probability聽strand of the p膩ngarau curriculum. Further books focusing on statistics at levels 4 and 5 of the curriculum will follow later in 2015 and early 2016.
We鈥檙e delighted to see that Ian has made good use of CensusAtSchool questions and data, and we are hoping that this will encourage more reo-M膩ori classrooms to take part in the M膩ori-language version of the census and accompanying resources. Thanks Ian!
Copies of the textbook can be .