Maths Week 2025
11 August 2025 - 15 August 2025
Region(s): Nationwide
Type(s): promotion
Maths Week is free annual event and is available on-line to teachers, home educators, students and anyone else.
Maths Week was established by the New Zealand Association of Mathematics Teachers (NZAMT) in 1998. Over the years it has gained the attention of about 280,000 students, teachers and home educators.
For more information: www.mathsweek.co.nz.
Related content
See the range of resources supporting math and numeracy learning we have in Measurement – introduction. This include a suite of articles and videos created in collaboration with the Measurement Standards Laboratory of New Zealand.
Scientists often use mathematical models to help make predictions. All models have limitations but can produce quite accurate results. Read more about this here.
Read about Dr Hayley Reynolds, she wanted to use her skills in maths and science to do something to contribute to society, to achieve something that is clinically useful for doctors.
Activity ideas
This activity shows the relevance of mathematical skills in a real-life context – making New Zealand pest-free.
See the the student activities that were part the suite of resources covering Our atmosphere and climate 2020. Using infographics and Interpreting representations using climate data focus on how data is presented, what the representations tell us and how they get the messages across. Students can use Ministry for the Environment and Stats NZ datasets to explore regional weather data and analyse climate data, using an inquiry-based approach.
Measurements, weird and wonderful is a collection of unusual measurement units – such as a moment (1/40 of an hour). Follow this up with the Cubits, spans and digits activity to reinforce the degree of uncertainty when using non-SI measurements.
Measuring foot pressure provides practice using SI units, derived units and prefixes.
Precision and accuracy provides various datasets for students to judge precision and accuracy in scientific settings.
How long is it? is based on a collection of length measurements found on our website. Lengths range from the very small to the very big, helping students develop an understanding of the decimal system as applied to length measurement.
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