Teacher-only planning companion for Treaty Settlement Statistics and Justice. Use this page to keep the mathematics rigorous while protecting the historical and cultural integrity of the topic.
This handout works best when kaiako make the cross-curricular contract explicit: students are using statistical tools to interpret a justice-related data set, not using maths to pretend that justice can be fully reduced to numbers. Keep the two ideas together all the way through.
For a given set of data, choose and construct an appropriate data visualisation according to the data type, then notice and explain patterns and outliers.
The student task asks learners to turn the settlement table into a clear visualisation, label it properly, and explain what the graph makes visible.
Useful for making statistics feel relevant without dropping mathematical precision.
Systems shape how people and groups organise themselves: rights, responsibilities, power, fairness.
The reflection section pushes students to interpret what the numbers suggest about pace, scale, and fairness while also noticing the limits of numeric evidence.
Strong when kaiako want quantitative reasoning to lead into civics and justice discussion.
Teaching with Treaty settlement data should foreground that land, taonga, mana, and relationships are not fully captured by money or counts.
Tell students directly that the graph is one lens. Then ask what the table cannot represent. That keeps the mathematics honest and the kaupapa intact.
Best used where maths and social-studies teachers want one shared inquiry task rather than two disconnected worksheets.
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Ministry of Education. (2021). Te Mātaiaho: The Refreshed New Zealand Curriculum. Ministry of Education.
Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand. (2021). Tātaiako: Cultural Competencies for Teachers of Māori Learners. Teaching Council.