Investing in the Future STEM Skills Development Award. Winner: OLICO Maths
Maths is a stumbling block for young peoples’ future and they tripped up in primary school.
Learning the fundamentals of maths can equip children with critical thinking and reasoning skills.
South Africans should be deeply worried about the state of maths teaching and learning.
South African education does have a good story to tell — but not the one told by misleading statistics.
The fall in students studying maths and schools offering the subject is causing alarm – but the government’s own figures paint a confusing picture.
The Department of Basic Education is putting measures in place to ensure schools stop dropping the two critical subjects.
The country’s skills shortage is to be worsened by the increasing move to mathematics literacy.
Poor performance in public schools is likely to accelerate the growth of private education.
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Schools keep pass rates up by limiting subject choices – sacrificing our poorest pupils’ futures, says Martin Prew.
Our learners are not being adequately prepared for the next year in the classroom.
Our expensive testing and research still do not tell us enough about how children learn the subject, writes Elizabeth Henning.
Mamphela Ramphele lashed out at South Africa’s education system.
