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The influence of educational leadership on quality teaching and learning of high school mathematics
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
I address the relevance of quality learning and teaching in South African high schools’ as it relates to the strategic direction provided by high school leadership for the benefit of knowledge economies and higher learning ...
Implementing an intentional teaching model to investigate grade 9 learners’ ways of working with rational algebraic fractions
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
In South Africa it is widely known that most learners struggle with mathematics. The results for mathematics are poor. The department of basic education offers a number of intervention programmes to assist learners in ...
Prospective Zimbabwean "A" level mathematics teacher's knowledge of the concept of a function
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)
The purpose of the study was to investigate prospective 'A' level mathematics teachers’ knowledge of the concept of a function. The study was a case study of six prospective Zimbabwean teachers who were majoring in mathematics ...
Tracking learners’ performances in high-stakes Grade 10 mathematics examinations
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
One of the educational ideas used in mathematics education to improve mathematics
achievement in schools is examination-driven teaching. Its effects have sparked intense
debates in different didactic circles regarding ...
Signification of African cultural identity, individual African identity and performance in Mathematics among some standard nine African pupils in Mangaung high schools
(University of the Western Cape, 1998)
This study investigates how two groups of African pupils, namely the low and high performers in standard 9 mathematics classes in some high schools in Mangaung, construct meaning of their African cultural, individual African ...
The impact of using technology through cooperative learning on learners’ performance on grade 11 circle geometry
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Euclidean geometry was recently re-introduced as a compulsory topic in the Mathematics Curriculum for learners in the Further Education and Training (FET) band in 2012. The diagnostic analysis reports on the National Senior ...
An investigation of strategies used by grade 4 learners to solve measurement type word problems
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
The aim of this study was to investigate and highlight the problem-solving strategies used by
grade 4 learners when solving measurement word problems. Furthermore, it aimed at revealing
how learners go about using these ...
Eritrean grade eight student understanding of algebraic variables
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)
This study investigated Eritrean grade eight students' understanding of algebraic variables. A complete count survey of all secondary schools of one province was done and the one that took part in the study was Gash-Barka ...
An investigation into the use of a computer algebra system for the teaching of introductory school calculus
(University of the Western Cape, 1995)
Mathematics education in South Africa is in a state of crisis.
One manifestation of this crisis is that students in the former
Department of Education and Training (DET), which catered for
blacks in the former Apartheid ...