Mathsliteracy Teachers resources

Thanx Johan

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.

Alison's exam paper for her grade 12's. The discusssion forum is here: http://mathsliteracy.ning.com/forum/topics/june-2009-past-papers-g10-g12

The WCED paper 2009

Official 2009 website for the Amesa conference

A copy of the June 2009 Paper 2 written by some schools in the WCED. Thanx Johan!

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.

Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has highlighted the importance of maths literacy among school children, especially under the current economic climate.

Little videos clarifying budgets with accompanying quizes and activities

As we all have heard, the laptop for teachers project of the DoE has now been officially been gazetted. Teachers are to get an allowance of R130 per month to subsidise the aquisition of the laptop over a 5 year period. I think this would make a GREAT excercise to work out just how vaible this innitiative is. This document gives the background to the project. I am looking forward to a great lessonplan!!!???? Maybe I can geet Casio to sponsor a calulator for the most innovative lesson plan for this context!??

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.

In this unit, the theoretical basis for teaching mathematics - constructivism - is explored. Varieties of teaching strategies based on constructivist understandings of how learning best takes place are described.

Thanx to Sonja for uploading these! Just click on the links in the discussion to open the papers and please go and comment!

A twitter survey of how people use maths in their everyday lives. A great use of twitter!

This is paper on a study that was done with nurses: "We investigate how expert nurses undertake the calculation of drug dosages on the ward. This calculation is error-critical in nursing practice and maps onto the concepts of ratio and proportion "