Teacher-only planning note
Kaiako can use this handout to make unequal distribution visible fast, then shift the class into evidence-based conversation about housing, opportunity, and community impact. The teaching move that matters most is to keep the focus on systems, policy, and values rather than asking students to expose family financial realities.
A distribution can be shown using data visualisations that make patterns, trends, and variation visible.
How this handout aligns
The token model is deliberately simple so ākonga can graph a distribution, explain the skew, and discuss what the pattern suggests. That gives kaiako a clean bridge between statistics and social discussion instead of treating the graph as separate from the issue.
Best fit with Te Mātaiaho Phase 4 statistics when students need to read, represent, and discuss distributions in context.
Statistical questions identify the variable, the group of interest, and the type of investigation, including comparison inquiry.
How this handout aligns
The equal-share comparison and response-justification section let kaiako move beyond “this looks unfair” toward structured investigation: What are we comparing, what evidence do we have, and what would a different distribution change?
Useful before students move into local datasets on housing, wages, or wealth concentration in Aotearoa.
Economic justice work in Aotearoa needs structural language around colonisation, policy, inherited advantage, and community-led alternatives.
Teacher-only note
The handout supports a stronger social-studies conversation than the maths row alone suggests. Use manaakitanga in the framing, keep examples public rather than personal, and make room for kaupapa Māori responses such as iwi, hapū, and community-led development.
The companion is teacher-only because the curriculum reasoning and care decisions belong with kaiako, not on the student worksheet.
Use this resource as the concrete entry point before budgeting, systems comparison, and policy-response writing.
How to use this resource
Run the physical model first, then send students to Budget Reality Simulation or Economic Systems Comparison. That sequence turns a visual pattern into both practical reasoning and civic judgement.
Strongest as an opener or reset when economic justice discussion is still too abstract.