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Hamsa Venkat

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Hamsa Venkat

The key obstacle to progress in maths education is the lack of evaluation of in-service teacher training programmes.
MATHS

We need more than a stab in the dark

Why have none of the many attempts to improve maths teaching worked?

  • Hamsa Venkat
  • Nic Spaull 1
6 min read
The South African Democratic Teachers Union alleges schools are pressuring learners in grade 10 and upwards to drop maths to protect overall matric pass rates
HAMSA VENKAT

Teaching primary maths

What is it that we want our learners to be able to do at the end of a lesson, or a term, or a year after our mathematics teaching?

  • Hamsa Venkat
4 min read
HAMSA VENKAT

Getting a hand on double digits

Children should be fluent with bonds of 10 and adding 10 to a number.

  • Lynn Bowie Hamsa Venkatakrishnan
  • Hamsa Venkat
5 min read
BASIC EDUCATION

Talking them through 2+2

An initiative encourages primary school teachers to overcome their fear of maths

  • Hamsa Venkat
  • Lynn Bowie Hamsa Venkatakrishnan
6 min read