https://www.schoolnews.co.nz/2018/02/full-steam-ahead-for-21st-century-citizens/
July 23 1990 Article
Key Points
Emphasis on solving problems and real life contexts and preparing for the demands of the future.
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- Providing real motivating and real world contexts within which children can apply meaningful mathematical and scientific skills and understanding
- Inquiry based
- Team work and collaboration
STEAM -is interdisciplinary, problem solving, creativity, analytical and critical thinking and innovation are integral to STEAM
Supports the curriculum by the way the sciences, arts, mathematical and arts thinking and knowledge over lap and intertwine
"According to the New Zealand Curriculum, mathematics explores and uses patterns and relationships in quantities, space, and time, while statistics does the same with data. Both mathematicians and statisticians use symbols, graphs, and diagrams to find and communicate patterns and relationships, and to create models to represent both real-life and hypothetical situations from a range of social, cultural, scientific, technological, health, environmental, and economic contexts."
Good web site the education closet
https://educationcloset.com/steam/what-is-steam/#STEAMComponents
