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Crouching learners, hidden values: values in school mathematical literacy lessons
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
Local and international pundits concur that education systems play a pivotal role in fostering and developing values in learners. In some countries, like South Africa, the values and rights enshrined in the Constitution ...
Analysis of the ways of working of learners in the final grade 12 mathematical literacy examination papers: focussing on questions related to measurement
(University of Western Cape, 2012)
Mathematical Literacy has a dual meaning in South Africa. On the one hand it alludes to an understanding of the role of Mathematics in the real world. On the other hand it refers to a subject that is taken by students who ...
Context preferences of teachers in South Africa and South Korea for mathematics in schools
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)
The study was located within the project : Relevance of school mathematics Education (ROSME) of the Department of Dicactics at the University of the Western Cape. The research was undertaken in the belief that mathematics ...
A comparison of grade 8 to10 urban and peri-urban learners context preferences for mathematical literacy
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)
The study explored the comparison of grade 8 to 10 urban and peri-urban learners' contexts preferences in mathematical literacy. There is currently a strong emphasis on the use of contexts for school mathematics. This has ...
Learners' motivations for preferred contexts in mathematical literacy
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)
The National Curriculum Statement introduced mathematical literacy officially in 2006. Learners in general perform poorly at mathematics in South Africa but there is strong belief that learners should graduate from schools ...