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Speaker 1: There are mistakes in the new math's workbooks from the

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Speaker 1: Ministry of Education. Some of these were quite frankly absolute clangers.

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Speaker 1: A question for the year sevens incorrectly referred to rectangles

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Speaker 1: as triangles, and one answer in a book for the

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Speaker 1: year fours was listed as Ony twenty four when it

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Speaker 1: was supposed to be nine eight hundred and seventy five.

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Speaker 1: Lucy Naylor is Auckland Primary Principals Association president who's met

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Speaker 1: with the Ministry today to discuss this. Hey, Lucy, hi head.

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Speaker 1: Some of the stuff sounds really dumb, but eighteen errors

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Speaker 1: in workbooks for six different year groups probably isn't that bad, right.

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Speaker 2: Look at I think it's a small number of errors

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Speaker 2: given that you're dealing with four providers across eight years

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Speaker 2: of learning. There's no doubt that those er shouldn't have curred.

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Speaker 2: But I also think it's probably reflective of the pace

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Speaker 2: of change that the providers had to produce the resources.

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Speaker 2: The other point I would say as well is that

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Speaker 2: given the math resources have been given free to schools

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Speaker 2: by the government, it kind of outweighs the errors. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, the additional support definitely outweighs the number of

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Speaker 2: erarors at this point. Another point as well is that

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Speaker 2: the math resources a very small part of a math

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Speaker 2: program roughly, but it should be about five percent of

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Speaker 2: your math program is made up of views in the resource.

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Speaker 2: So look, while it's you know, obviously not ideal, I

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Speaker 2: don't think in the long term it's going to make

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Speaker 2: a massive amount of impact. I think there've been minimal

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Speaker 2: long term impact of this, and I believe I think

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Speaker 2: I'm right in saying that the errors have been corrected already.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you had a meeting today with the Ministry

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Speaker 1: of Education. What was the point of that?

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Speaker 2: That was actually a meeting around reporting to parents and

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Speaker 2: unpacking different aspects of reporting to parents.

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Speaker 1: Okay, how fast did these guys have to prepare these

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Speaker 1: books if they made such you know, basic errors.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't. I don't know the specifics of the timeline,

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Speaker 2: but the IRIFP was put out in about November last year,

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Speaker 2: so it was quite a quick turnaround. And if you

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Speaker 2: think of the volume that those providers were having to publish,

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Speaker 2: that's a lot of books. Yeah, so I guess what,

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Speaker 2: are we surprised there's a few eerrors? Probably not, but

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Speaker 2: I do think that look it is reflected to that

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Speaker 2: pace of change, but across the volume of resource that

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Speaker 2: was produced, it's fairly small and yeah, the minimal there'll

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Speaker 2: be absolutely minimal long term impact for those children.

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Speaker 1: Lucy. Thanks very much, Lucy Naylor, Auckland Primary Principles Association President.

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