Mathsliteracy Teachers resources

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.

Numbers,  Order of Operations Patterns and Relationships Percentage Proportion Rate Ratio Space, Shape and Orientation

In Maximum Capacity, you play the role of an elevator attendant who must bring as many gorillas as possible to the eighth floor for the annual Gorilla's Ball at the Jungle Hotel! The only problem is, the doors to the ball close in three minutes, and there are still hundreds of anxious gorillas waiting. Bring as many as you can to the eighth floor in three minutes.

Nice article to make a mathematical literacu=y stats lesson out of seing hat our learners are loving their soicla media sites. Could get them to research Mxit adoption....

This article deals with an intervention unit which focused on the positive effect of integrating poems, stories and fables (the literary genre) for improving mathematical language, fostering the teaching of mathematics language, increasing satisfaction with the process and strengthening the relationship between use of daily language and mathematics language. The study was conducted amongst pre-service mathematics teachers, specialising in literacy activities designed to foster mathematics language.

Thanx Andrew for sharing this paper. Andrew's memo for this paper is here: http://www.box.net/shared/kgqbs4unsa and the discussion is here: http://mathsliteracy.ning.com/forum/topics/matric-2010-dbe-maths-literacy

This studymate leaflet (free with local newspapers) have: - 10 things to help learners succeed in the exams -Diet and academic perfomance (BMI-maths lit) - Tops for teachers, learners and old toppies (that's us)

"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! "

InBalance has been been developed by a team of European research and learning institutions.The purpose of the project is to support and develop adult tutors of numeracy and provide structured and engaging materials for learners of several abilities. InBalance is a realistic & systematic methodology based on the needs of individual learners & their practical everyday experiences.The InBalance website presents you with a European Numeracy Framework. It describes in detail European levels of competence in numeracy relating to real life situations. There is also a bank of learning materials & an assessment tool for you to use with your own learners; and an exercise maker which will assist you to create your own learning materials.

Thanx for faxing this Carika! The discussion is here: http://mathsliteracy.ning.com/forum/topics/matric-2010-dbe-maths-literacy

This tool creates visualizations graphs of the data your twitter/hashtag archives. Use it to help you understand trends such as the number of Tweets over time, top users and words, sentiment, and more.

This great interactive simulation lesson with learner worksheets let learners investigate a crash scene, taking into account all evidence and then , using given formula, calculate data in ordert to detemine what happened.

Some past discussions about maths vs maths lit- how far have we moved on from here?

See Carikas discussion here: http://mathsliteracy.ning.com/forum/topics/n-graad-12-projek-ondersoek?

"For use by students, a Frequency Distribution Table with Cumulative Frequency column. Frequency is entered using +/- buttons, cumulative frequency is entered manually and the tool shows whether the entry is correct (green) or not (red)."

These materials were developed for the GDE Senior Secindary Intervention Support Programme.