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From the Executive Director's desk |
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 It is with great sadness that I review the results each year. Mathematics and Science teaching and learning is not moving towards success for our learners. Maths Centre strategy is focused around developing and supporting learners and teachers from Grade R to Grade 12.
Materials, Training courses, learning support, classroom visits and workshops are all geared to introduce and sustain the love of Mathematics, Science, Technology, Entrepreneurship education as well as LEARNING per se.
It seems that our learners in South Africa are not at all sure what it means to be a learner? What is the role and responsibility for participating in one’s own life for without that, learners are always living without a clear goal and ambition?
The new curriculum is very exciting, brilliant in its design and purpose, meets the international standards for Teaching Mathematics, Science and Technology and yet so many of our teachers and learners are not at all familiar with even the basics of the curriculum. Maths Centre support will take you into the depth of all the dimensions of the curriculum so that you begin to move towards unparalleled competence and confidence.
Our text books, resource kits, ICT support, charts, posters, and pocket books are all designed to assist and support your teaching and learning. Our staff in all the provinces is there to assist you, an e-mail and a phone call away. Research reports from all over the world have been studied to choose some of the very best to start you thinking. These are listed on the website. Contact us. We all need to engage in an intense critical debate to get our learners learning and teachers teaching.
Sharanjeet Shan
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Maths and Science Saturday Classes |
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The Maths Centre is offering Saturday Classes to Matric learners. These classes will cover both Maths and Physical Science on Grade 12 level.
Sessions start 13 March 2010 at R50 per hour. We have an open day on 12 March 2010.
The package includes:
- Free Maths / Science assessment
- 21 sessions
- Study material
- 1 day career guidance
For more detail, see the flyer below.
For more information on maths training, please refer to our Mathematics Training page. |
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First Numeracy Hub school |
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 Eldene Primary, a small school (roughly 83 years old) is located in the heart of a low socio-economic suburb called Elsies River in the Western Cape. It consists of only a Foundation Phase, including Grade R. The school has 14 teachers and only 302 learners.
Even though the school is in a state of disrepair, the staff, parents and learners were not deterred from rising to the occasion in support of Maths Centre’s intervention. Their enthusiasm has proved to be a benchmark for all other schools.
Eldene Primary was selected as a Numeracy Hub for Foundation Phase on the basis of meeting the prescribed criteria. In its capacity as the Hub, the school will serve as a nerve centre for Numeracy development in this region. This would involve showcasing and sharing both learners and teachers improved Numeracy efforts in terms of unique methodologies and content knowledge.
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Read more...
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 2010 is a big year for South Africa. Not only are we hosting the Soccer World Cup, but Johannesburg hosted the World Maths Day 2010 on Wednesday, 3 March.
Learners played at home and at school against other learners around the world in live games of mental arithmetic. Each game lasted for 60 seconds and learners could have played up to 500 games, earning points for each correct answer.
This year the world record was broken!
1,133,246 students and 56,082 schools from 235 countries have united to set the new world record by correctly answering 479,732,613 questions.
The validation process is under way to determine the winners in each category, and the leading countries – results will be posted on the World Maths Day website on Tuesday 9 March. |
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