TIMSS 2010/11: New Zealand Year 5 students' strengths and weaknesses Publications
Publication Details
These booklets are intended as a resource for Year 5 mathematics and science teachers. They contain a selection of the TIMSS 2010/11 released test questions, along with their expected answers and tables showing other countries’ results for comparison. Where New Zealand students struggled, there are also some suggested resources for teaching these particular topics.
Author(s): Sarah Kirkham, Research Division, Ministry of Education
Date Published: January 2014
Summary
Along with children from over 60 countries, New Zealand’s Year 5 students took part in the 2010/11 cycle of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS 2010/11). This study measures trends in mathematics and science achievement in Years 5 and 9 and identifies effective instructional practices from around the world. After every cycle of TIMSS, some of the test questions are released to the public while some are kept confidential to help measure trends from one cycle to the next.
This booklet contains a selection of TIMSS 2010/11 test questions from the three mathematics content domains. It includes examples of questions where New Zealand Year 5 students did better than the international average and examples where they did worse. For those questions where New Zealand students struggled, suggested resources are provided for use in the classroom for teaching the topics these questions relate to. This booklet is intended as a resource for Year 5 mathematics teachers.
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