“…Overall, the NZC (Ministry of Education, 2007) was intended to provide more autonomy for schools by being less dense and specific about what needed to be taught, as well as following international trends towards skills-based and learner-centric curricula that promoted local decision making about what was important to teach, and inquiry-based modes of learning (Priestley & Sinnema, 2014). Morrow, Rata, and Evans (2022), and to a lesser extent, Priestley and Sinnema (2014), describe this shift as removing knowledge of mathematics from the curriculum.…”