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Ingrid from MD Bright Media has uploaded the Afrikaans translations of the Grade 10, 11 and 12 booklets that are Managing Your Money in English. Please give them feedback!! They have been revised for the new core curriculum fous, but provide cross-curricular and learning opportunities beyond the curriculum, in practical real-life financial situations.

The objective of good math teaching should not be to "cover the curriculum" but to show students how to explore our fascinating and beautiful world through the lens of mathematics. We must change our focus in math education from a focus on a largely irrelevant and uninteresting set of learning objectives to a focus on making math relevant and engaging for students.

Revision of the FET Mathematical Literacy curriculum: Shifts and rationales (Friday 3rd September) Are you a mathematically literate consumer? (Saturday 4th September)

"Lesson McMaths Fast Food Challenge: This Lesson Covers both curriculum areas of Maths and Health including percentages, conversion & Calculations, Food tables, nutritional Value and Recommended Daily Intake. I did this series of lessons earlier in the year with my students and it was one of the best learning experiences we had as we learnt a great deal about nutrition and some pretty open ended maths strategies over the course of the week that it runs for. Students were really engaged learning about these 'fast' foods they eat regularly and the excessive amount of calories they consume if they are not selective when eating out at fast fast food venues. More so some of them were shocked at the amount of exercise required to burn off that Big Mac, Coke and Fries and really started to make the connection that 'fast food' was a 'slow slog' to burn off."

Workschedules that were developed by DIRECTORATE: CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT of the WCED

The Materials Bank is a teaching resource for FET college lecturers. It includes learning and assessment activities which can be downloaded for use in your classroom. The downloaded materials can be adapted and edited to suit your needs. The activities were written for sector-based qualifications offered by colleges before the introduction of the NCVs. However there is a great deal of overlap between the two. Check the outcomes to see how these activities and ideas match the outcomes of your curriculum. It has been developed by the WCED

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

The 30 videos offered by Mindset give a good overview of the content of the Mathematical Literacy curriculum and rich ideas for ways of teaching it in an engaging way that helps learners see how relevant this subject is for them.

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.

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.

mission: the math literacy project provides opportunities for students to achieve in a college preparatory mathematics curriculum so that they may gain access to educational, economic, and social resources that will lead to individual empowerment, independence, and social justice.

This document gives the various breakdowns and some examples of what is expected at which thinking level

Lovely collection of resources for maths lit. From curriculum documents to electronic marksheets, pace setters and examplars

I am just busy catching up on some old bookmarking of ML research articles

Loads of links to sites with statistical data sets in a variety of fields.