University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Mathematical Literacy, Mathematics and Mathematical Science. Umthamo 5: Shaping Teaching to Make Space for Learning
The main focus here is on reshaping our own ways of teaching, in order to allow learners to have space to explore and investigate mathematics. This is more likely to change our learners' attitudes towards mathematics. If maths is fun and exciting their attitude to mathematics is more likely to be positive. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Mathematical Literacy, Mathematics and Mathematical Science. Umthamo 4: Developing Mathematical Thinking Using Patterns
This mthamo highlights the value of patterns to develop mathematical thinking. Patterns permeate our lives, and it is useful to explore them with our learners as we study mathematics together. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Mathematical Literacy, Mathematics and Mathematical Science. Umthamo 3: Maths - Language
This umthamo takes the teachers through a process of engaging with their learners on the language of mathematics. Once the umthamo is completed you will have: * experienced for yourself what it is like to think and talk about an aspect of Maths, and you will have a sense of the importance of creating opportunities for Maths talk in the classroom * read several transcripts of teachers... more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Mathematical Literacy, Mathematics and Mathematical Science. Umthamo 2: Problem Solving and Investigating
The main focus of this umthamo is to explore alternative ways to teach and facilitate the learning of mathematics in primary classrooms. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Mathematical Literacy, Mathematics and Mathematical Science. Umthamo 1: Developing and using Number Concepts
In this umthamo we explore learners' thinking about number. We have put together samples of research about how young children develop their mathematical concepts. Our aim is to enable you to have: * a clearer understanding of basic number concepts * an appreciation of how young children begin to make sense of numbers at home and in school * a sense of how young children develop number... more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Learning in the World. Umthamo 6: 'A Collective Consciousness': Cluster Development Within the District (2)
This umthamo continues the discussion started in the previous umthamo on cluster development. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Learning in the World. Umthamo 5: 'A Collective Consciousness': Cluster Development Within the District
Lo mthamo asks you to take whole school development out into the broader context of the community of schools in your district. We have spoken, in the Schools as Learning Communities strand, of 'Schools as Learning Organisations', of 'Learning Schools', of School Improvement', Whole School Development' and 'Healing the System'. All these have been approaches to developing our schools into '... more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Learning in the World. Umthato 4: Lahla, Bumba: South Africa's Curriculum Change in Context
The current umthamo focuses on curriculum change in South Africa. The main aim here is provide educators with an opportunity to look critically at the curriculum change process in South Africa. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Learning in the World. Umthato 3: What is Curriculum?
There are a number of ways of looking at curriculum and the issues central to thinking about curriculum and what and how learners should learn. In lo mthamo, we will ask you to look at curriculum by examining what you do in your classroom. You will also look at curriculum by reading about syllabi, and by analysing part of a textbook. You will have an opportunity to think about the kinds of... more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Learning in the World. Umthato 2: Education and Change in South Africa
In this umthamo, we will look at how education changes as society changes, and as different groups of people gain power. The education provided by communities and governments is different at different times and in different places all over the world. more
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