Teacher-only planning companion for Unit 10 Week 1 Food Budget Pie Chart. Use this page to keep the numeracy work connected to scarcity and food-system decision-making.
This page should feel like maths with social meaning. The pie chart is useful only if students can explain what the distribution shows about needs, priorities, and scarcity.
MATHEMATICS-8cb7e35600: Communicating findings in context to answer an investigative question, using evidence, providing explanations, and evaluating whether claims are supported by the data.
Students estimate percentages, represent them visually, and then explain what the pattern suggests about a food budget under pressure.
Useful when you want the chart interpreted, not just drawn.
TM-SS-3-K1: How different systems function in Aotearoa and globally — household food budgets sit inside larger systems of production, price, transport, access, and seasonal availability.
The categories invite students to see that food choices are structured by system pressures, not just preference.
This is the strongest social-studies bridge for the page.
Budget tasks are more powerful in Aotearoa when students talk about which foods become staples, which foods become luxuries, and how cost pressure affects whānau decision-making.
Switch to a fictional case if needed, but keep the interpretation question: what does this chart show about scarcity and prioritising kai?
Best used after students have already learned the core Unit 10 vocabulary.
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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.
This curriculum companion is informed by mātauranga Māori — the holistic body of Māori knowledge, values, and practices. Kaiako are encouraged to draw connections between the content and tikanga, whanaungatanga, and students's turangawaewae (place and belonging). Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles of partnership, participation, and protection should shape how this material is introduced and discussed in the classroom.