9. Question No. 9—EducationERICA STANFORD (National—East Coast Bays) to the Minister of EducationQuestion No. 9—Education9. ERICA STANFORD (National—East Coast Bays) to the Minister of Education: What percentage of students were meeting curriculum expectations in maths at year 8 in 2022 according to e-asTTle data and what percentage of students passed the math assessment in the second NCEA literacy and numeracy pilot last year?Hon JAN TINETTI (Minister of Education): The e-asTTle data for 2022 hasn't been analysed yet and is not public. To the second part of the question 64.1 percent of students overall passed the numeracy pilot in 2022 including 57.3 percent of those who sat the assessment in September.Erica Stanford: Why isn't math on the Government professional learning and development (PLD) priority list to support teachers when the royal society report commissioned by this Government in 2021 found that nearly half of year 4 teachers said that they felt only moderately confident in teaching mathematics and those teachers were not scheduling the subject as often as a result?Hon JAN TINETTI: Maths is actually very much a priority of this Government. We are finalising the curriculums in English maths and statistics at this point in time. From 2024 the common-practice model—meaning that consistency being taught from Kaitāia to Invercargill for maths—will be in place. It is currently being finalised and will go out to the sector. With that will be a very full support programme for our teachers as well and we have also now developed a full set of progress steps for both literacy and maths.Erica Stanford: How can it be that after 5½ years of her Government and a comprehensive report recommending sustained PLD in math for all year 0 to 8 teachers are we still got getting the PLD for our teachers in math that they need and a whole cohort of primary school students have come and gone?Hon JAN TINETTI: I will remind the member that as I've said in the House before last year we did an extensive PLD programme called Just-in-Time Maths for teachers within the sector. Again we have put out the work and the expectations around the teaching of maths and the development of the common-practice model—meaning that consistency of teaching of knowing what to do how to teach maths when to teach it for how long will be absolutely evident to all our teachers. This is an area that we are putting a huge amount of effort into and it's one of our biggest priorities in the curriculum space.Erica Stanford: Why has the Government still not mandated that students spend one hour on maths every day as recommended by the 2021 royal society report when in 2019 just 45 percent of year 8s met curriculum expectation in math according to National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement student achievement data?Hon JAN TINETTI: Maths is a compulsory part of the New Zealand Curriculum. The nature of the current curriculum is relatively devolved and the Government doesn't currently prescribe hours or specific content of teacher; no Government has done that. We are changing that through the curriculum rewrite so it is very clear what must be taught and when to teach it so that no learning is left to chance.