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Maggie Verster

MATHEMATICS OUTCOMES IN SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOLS: What are the facts? What should be done? - 0 views

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    "South Africa is significantly underperforming in education, particularly mathematics teaching and learning. Fundamental reforms are needed in the public sector. Business leaders need to incorporate an understanding of private education and other market experiments and schooling innovations in their overall perspective and priorities for intervention and reform.   Read more in a new CDE Insight, MATHEMATICS OUTCOMES IN SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOLS: What are the facts? What should be done? "
Maggie Verster

The maths and science performance of South Africa's public schools: Some lessons from t... - 0 views

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    "Mathematics and science at school are vital to higher education, skilled jobs, and the national economy. For this reason, CDE has taken a sustained interest in the performance of the South African schooling system in these subjects. This paper summarises the results of four statistical analyses of Senior Certificate and National Senior Certificate results since 1998. Conducted by Professor Charles Simkins, they provide important new insights into the mathematics and science performance of South African schools, and identify key policy issues arising from the research."
Maggie Verster

Fullmarks question: Context Facebook (Data handling → Investigate real life s... - 1 views

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    "Online social network sites like Facebook and Twitter became common destinations for young people. Throughout the world, young people are logging in, creating elaborate profiles, publicly articulating their relationships with other participants, and writing extensive comments back and forth. South Africa was not left behind and Facebook became increasingly popular amongst people of all ages. Figure 1 below gives a summary of the total number of Facebook users in South Africa from March 2011 to July 2011. Study Figure 2.1 and answer the questions that follow:"
Maggie Verster

maths - South Africa - the virtual school - YouTube - 0 views

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    "The virtual school videos for South African learners in the category "maths". The fun way to learn maths! Make sure to have a look at the entire list from top to bottom! "
Maggie Verster

The implementation of ML in South Africa - 0 views

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    The implementation of a mandatory mathematics curriculum in South Africa : the case of mathematical literacy (A thesis paper)
Johan Smit

South African Tax Terms Explained | TaxTim - 0 views

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    Description of SARS terminology made easy
Maggie Verster

Cost of a Child | EarlyChildhoodEducation.com - 0 views

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    Lesson plan idea: Using this infographic, the students can create a similar breakdown of costing for our South African scenario. And they can do a comparison of what it cost to study here and overseas. 
Maggie Verster

Maths: Why don't we fathom young minds? | Schools | Schools | Mail & Guardian - 0 views

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    "Conversations about mathematics education in this country pop up frequently in the media - and I have yet to come across anyone who is happy with the way things are in the learning of maths among the nation"s children. Many try to find out what goes wrong by conducting research. South Africa has about 150 researchers in mathematics education, and there are a number of special mathematics chairs of research and development at various universities. Funding foundations are generally very keen to contribute to research, especially if it is linked to development programmes and if some impact can be measured."
Maggie Verster

Rasch modelling of Mathematics and Science teachers' preferences of real-life situation... - 0 views

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    In order to ascertain the real-life situations that teachers, as stakeholders, would find suitable and appropriate to deal with in Mathematical Literacy (a compulsory subject for students who are not doing Mathematics at the Further Education and Training level of the South African education system), we embarked on a study known as the Relevance of School Mathematics Education (ROSME). The principle underpinning this article is that there are times when it is necessary to assess the functionality and quality of questionnaires used to ascertain affective domain issues. The study provides an analysis technique which is not affected by the sample of individuals completing a questionnaire, provided that the instrument meets particular requirements. It thus improves the rigour of measurement. Various statistics obtained in this study showed that the instrument used to determine the real-life situations which teachers prefer for Mathematical Literacy reasonably identifies this variable. However, it is cautioned that much more care needs to be exercised in construction of such instruments. The results also indicated the real-life situations which teachers most and least preferred to be included in Mathematical Literacy, providing useful information for policy-makers and textbook authors on contextual situations to be included in learning materials.
Maggie Verster

Malati mathematics materials - 0 views

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    All the materials developed by MALATI are in the public domain. They may be freely used and adapted, with acknowledgement to MALATI and the Open Society Foundation for South Africa. The documents provided here are the teacher documents, consisting of the learner activities and accompanying teacher notes. We also include the rationale document for each content area, giving background on the underlying philosophy and design principles.
Maggie Verster

Maths literacy teachers' blog - 0 views

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    Our official outside blog for advocacy for maths literacy for parents and learners. It also house our automated maths lit links from our South African mathsliteracy teachers network and bits and pieces for learners to nibble on.
Maggie Verster

Exploring What It Means To 'Do' Mathematics - 0 views

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    This unit gives a historical background to mathematics education in South Africa, to outcomes-based education and to the national curriculum statement for mathematics. The traditional approach to teaching mathematics is then contrasted with an approach to teaching mathematics that focuses on 'doing' mathematics, and mathematics as a science of pattern and order, in which learners actively explore mathematical ideas in a conducive classroom environment.
Maggie Verster

Teaching and Learning Mathematics in Diverse Classrooms - 0 views

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    The module Teaching and Learning Mathematics in Diverse Classrooms is intended as a guide to teaching mathematics for in-service teachers in primary schools, but is suitable for maths tachers accross the curriculum. It is informed by the inclusive education policy (Education White Paper 6 Special Needs Education, 2001) and supports teachers in dealing with the diversity of learners in South African classrooms.
Maggie Verster

Literacy, maths shocker in SA - 0 views

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    Most primary school pupils in South Africa are failing tests for basic language and mathematics skills, the Children's Institute said
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My maths literacy research paper - 0 views

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    My paper on the agonies and successes of creating an informal online community of practice /learning ecology for mathematical literacy teachers in South Africa. It also explains the tools I used and how it impact(ed) on the community.
Maggie Verster

Concerns about the South African Mathematical Literacy curriculum arising from experien... - 2 views

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    I am just busy catching up on some old bookmarking of ML research articles
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Numeracy: seeing multiplication visualy - 0 views

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    "By the end of this section, you will have: * explored multiplication with your pupils through visual means; * used rectangular shapes to help pupils understand factors; * used investigations to explore patterns in number series."
Maggie Verster

Numeracy: Practical work with fractions - 0 views

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    "Allowing pupils to divide things into 'parts of a whole' using real objects helps them move more easily onto abstract ideas, such as fractions, division, ratio and proportion. This section will help you use simple physical objects and practical activities to develop your pupils' understanding of these concepts. "
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