Maths teaching method could help South Africa up its pass rate.
A recent trip by South African teachers to Singapore exposed the Asian tiger’s unique method of teaching mathematics.
US mathematician John Milnor has received Norway’s Abel Prize for work that includes the discovery of exotic smooth spheres in seven dimensions.
Primary school teachers are battling with the simple arithmetic they’re meant to be teaching, according to a survey of education in South Africa.
Oxford Educational Supplies has partnered with a US-based company, Texas Instruments, to enhance the teaching of maths through calculator technology.
Mental arithmetic cannot be taught simply by asking questions.
Helping children to recognise patterns in maths and repeating exercises often leads to better problem-solving skills,writes <b>Aarnout Brombacher</b>.
Allowing children to be curious and to develop their skills results in mathematics becoming a sense-making and problem-solving activity.
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/ 30 November 2010
In the eighth column in his series, <b>Aarnout Brombacher</b> explains the important difference between real-life problems and abstracts.
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/ 14 October 2010
Children often ask this question about mathematics and the teacher’s answer should be that we need it to help us solve problems in our daily lives.
<strong>Aarnout Brombacher</strong> presents the fifth
in a series on teaching mathematics.