Glenda Daniels
Guest Author
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/ 5 November 2007

Whatever you say, darling

Recently, over lunch with friends from overseas, a long discussion ensued about the behaviour and discipline – or lack thereof – of children these days. Far from being fuddy-duddies, the pregnant couple in their mid-30s said they would not raise their offspring in England, because the rudeness and lack of discipline among children there was horrific.

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/ 8 March 2007

Drug menace

Younger children are experimenting with drugs more than ever in the history of South Africa, and it appears to be widely spread over the racial, cultural and economic sections of society.

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/ 28 February 2007

Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed about teaching maths

When Robbie Brighton was doing a BCom degree, he did not have a clue he would one day become a maths teacher. But then, in 1997, he was invited to do sports coaching at a school while still studying. He enjoyed the kids so much that he decided to complete his BCom and go on to a teaching diploma to teach maths. “I really liked the enthusiasm of the children.

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/ 7 February 2007

SA – maths = crisis

There is a wonderful inherent logic and rationality to maths, and not just with equations. It is a great pity that the department of education is unable or unwilling to apply some of this rationale to dealing with the problem of low pass rates in maths in the country.