Abstract
The inadequate nature of the education infrastructure in South Africa has led to poor academic performance at public schools. Problems within schools such as under-qualified teachers and poor teacher performance arise due to the poorly constructed education system in our country. The implementation in 2012 of the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) at public schools in South Africa saw the further crippling of some teachers, as they were unfamiliar with parts of the CAPS subject content. The Statistics and Population Studies department at the University of the Western Cape was asked to join the Maths4Stats project in 2012. This project was launched by Statistics South Africa in an effort to assist in training the teachers in statistical content within the CAPS Mathematics curricula. The University of the Western Cape’s team would like to share their experience of being part of the Maths4Stats training in the Western Cape. This article focuses on how the training sessions were planned and what the outcomes were. With the knowledge gained from our first Maths4Stats experience, it is recommended that future interventions are still needed to ensure that mathematics teachers become well-informed and confident to teach topics such as data handling, probability and regression analysis.
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The inadequate nature of the education infrastructure in South Africa has led to poor academic performance at public schools
The implementation in 2012 of the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) at public schools in South Africa saw the further crippling of some teachers, as they were unfamiliar with parts of the CAPS subject content
Summary
Aanvanklike huiwering het ’n span UWK-dosente betrokke geraak by die Maths4Stats-opleidingsprojek om hul kennis van statistiek met onderwysers uit die Wes-Kaap te deel. Internasionale en nasionale studies wat wel beskikbaar is oor die opleiding van wiskunde-onderwysers meld nie hoe hierdie oorbrugging van kennis van statistiek en vaardighede in die onderrig van die KABV-inhoud hanteer kan word nie. Die UWK-span het die nuwe KABV-inhoud bestudeer om vertroud te raak met die statistiese konsepte wat in die Wiskunde- en Wiskundige Geletterdheid-sillabusse vir Graad 10 tot 12 ingesluit is. Elke spanlid het PowerPoint-aanbiedings voorberei in ooreenstemming met die UKZN-dokumente en videogrepe is geïnkorporeer om aan onderwysers te wys wat op die internet beskikbaar is en ook om as hulpmiddel te dien in die onderrig van geselekteerde konsepte. Hierdie temas was: statistiese aspekte doi:10.4102/satnt.v32i1.405 in die opleiding wat verdere opleiding vereis; voorstelle vir die verbetering van die struktuur en aanbieding van die kursus; asook aspekte waarvan hulle gehou het
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