Maths Aotearoa - Charlotte Wilkinson

Maths Aotearoa is the new, updated edition of the well-loved and trusted Pearson Mathematics series.

All Student Books and Teacher Books have been updated to reflect developments in the New Zealand curriculum and include Learning Progressions for each unit, as well as concept development and key knowledge building for each chapter, along with:

• More teacher professional content knowledge building
• Figure it Out links added to each chapter throughout the Teacher Books
• Wilkie Way support material for each chapter
• Learning Outcomes shared in student language for each chapter in the Student Book.

Maths Aotearoa substantially meets the needs of the refreshed curriculum. 

Maths Aotearoa and the refreshed curriculum

• Follows the science of learning by providing a sequentially structured teaching and learning programme
• Mastery is supported by the pedagogical approach using concrete (as identified in the teacher guide) and pictorial representations also in the student book before moving to abstract representations. Learning to use equations & expressions to communicate mathematical thinking.)
• Throughout the series are opportunities to use concepts in problem solving situations. These opportunities to apply the concepts increase as the students become more procedurally fluent. (The number of mini projects increase over the series.)
• Technology is used effectively with learning to use a calculator efficiently and using spreadsheets.
• Explicit teaching is used  throughout, with the teachers’ guides providing the teacher with the necessary conceptual understanding to ensure a conceptual focus as well as a procedural focus
• The know: Concepts & Content for each year group align very closely with the current series structure – one teacher guide & student book per year
• Maths Aotearoa is written in New Zealand for New Zealand by an international author, a teacher with over 20 years classroom experience from year 0 - 8 and a professional learning facilitator in the teaching and learning of primary mathematics for another 20 years.

Charlotte Wilkinson is a private education consultant specialising in the teaching and learning of mathematics. She has been a classroom teacher with experience in New Zealand and the UK across the primary age range from New Entrant to Year 8 as well as a deputy principal, and has also taught teachers at tertiary level. She is an MOE accredited facilitator for in-school professional development.

Charlotte is the author of Maths Aotearoa, the new, updated edition of the well-loved and trusted  Pearson Mathematics series, for New Zealand schools and is the coordinator and author for the foundation phase of the One Africa Numeracy Project. She designs and produces numeracy resources under the registered trademark The Wilkie Way.