NCEA Maths

You know you have a problem when even the PPTA is claiming NCEA is too easy when it comes to core numeracy and literacy. Here are some sample questions:

1. 5 boys share a bag of 55 lollies. How many lollies does each boy get?

2. There were 60 cows inside a shed. 18 walked outside. How many cows were left inside the shed?

3. 38 x 6 = ?

4. David has 35 stamps. Bruce has 70 stamps. How many stamps do they have altogether?

For these ones they could use calculators:

5. Write these percentages as decimals: 34% 52% 8%

6. Write these decimals as fractions: 0.5 0.03 0.95

7. Betty got 13 of the 20 questions correct in a biology test. What percentage did Betty get?

8. Gary ate 25% of a cake. What fraction of the cake did he eat?

The PPTA says that students three years younger than year ten could pass this test. I can only agree with them. There is nothing even remotely challening. It is very basic addition, subtraction and fraction conversion. Hell I could do that at around eight years old.