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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1017/
- Published: 2024-08-04T18:30:56.000Z
- Updated: 2024-08-04T18:30:55.000Z
- Description: Just 22 per cent of students are at the expected standard for maths at year eight and three out of five are more than a year behind.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Education

> \[Prime Minister Christopher Luxon\] said the Government had received “shocking new data” on primary children’s achievement in maths last year, justifying the Government’s curriculum overhaul.  
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> “Looking at kids who are about to go to high school, this data shows that just 22% of students are at the expected standard for maths at year eight. That means four out of five are falling behind,” Luxon said.  
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> “And it gets worse: three out of five are more than a year behind. \[...\]  
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> “We don’t have time to muck around here. We know what’s needed and what interventions are needed,” he said.  
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> Labour leader Chris Hipkins, in response, said the year eight students described by Luxon had started school under the prior National Government’s system of national standards.  
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> “That was a failure and we are still playing catch up,” he said, in a statement.

[Read more here](https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350366461/luxon-announces-new-maths-curriculum-primary-students?ref=goodoil.news)