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\nErica Stanford says it is not unusual to have errors in books.
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The Education Minister has thanked “keen bean” students for picking up errors in Ministry of Education-funded maths resources.<\/p>\n
Eighteen errors were spotted and fixed in new maths resources, including incorrect sums, a wrong number labelled in te reo M\u0101ori, and incorrectly saying “triangles” instead of “rectangles” in an answer.<\/p>\n
In one case, an answer to a problem in a Year 4 workbook was listed as 1024, and had to be changed to the correct answer of 19,875.<\/p>\n
In another workbook, the number four in te reo M\u0101ori (wh\u0101) was incorrectly written as two (rua).<\/p>\n
Erica Stanford said she “wouldn’t overblow it,” as there was, on average, half a mistake per book.<\/p>\n
“Those little eagle-eyed, keen bean students around the country who are now doing an hour a day of mathematics, picked them up and we’ve fixed them,” she said.<\/p>\n
Stanford said it was not unusual to have errors in books, and they may have been there for a while as they were existing resources.<\/p>\n
“You find it quite often in books, and it’s not just these maths books, you’ll find the odd error here and there.”<\/p>\n
The errors were immediately changed online, and would be fixed in re-prints for next year’s release.<\/p>\n
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\nA Ministry of Education list of the errors that have been resolved in maths resources.
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\nA Ministry of Education list of the errors that have been resolved in maths resources.
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