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Everywhere we turn, data is telling and weaving stories about our world. Youcubed have recognised the growing importance of being able to work with, understand, and use data by launching a data literacy section to their kete https://www.youcubed.org/resource/data-literacy/ Jo Boaler and her team have started working with Steve Levitt and his new initiative at the University of Chicago:  The Center for RISC . Together they are thinking through the changes that need to happen in maths education to build data fluency. Jo also argues that US curriculum standards are over packed with content, and teachers find it difficult to teach ideas in the depth that is needed. The same could be said for NZ. Mathematics in the 21st century requires a different approach and Jasmine Hall this years Bevan Werry speaker challenged us to think about this in her address at NZAMT 16. Youcubed's  21st Century maths page  has links to videos, and podcasts including a discussion with Keith Devlin, ...

Here is the first  National Maths & Stats Newsletter  of the year with many useful links.  I particularly like the new you cubed site from Stanford University  http://youcubed.stanford.edu /, and Jo Boaler,  Professor of Mathematics Education and the driving force behind the very successful “How to Learn Maths” course.  She uses Carol Dweck’s work and this website is heavily informed by her interpretations of “Mindset”.  http://youcubed.stanford.edu/category/teaching-ideas/growing-mindset/  .  The positive class norms section contains a document worth sharing with her 7 favourite messages for students Stanford also released a news article last week on the need to teach maths without fear or speed.  You can find the article  here  The short paper the news article is based on is worth downloading and having a read through. While this paper is aimed at younger students, as secondary teachers havi...