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- Title
THE CHALLENGES OF TEACHING MATHEMATICS IN SOUTH AFRICAN PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
- Authors
Machaba, Maphetla M.
- Abstract
Although modification in teacher-training programmes and school curriculum, there are still many challenges facing mathematics education. There is a strangely low achievement of children in mathematics. The poor performance in mathematics of children in the foundation phase has been a concern of everybody. Foundation phase teachers have an important role to play in the teaching and learning process of mathematics in schools. Research findings indicates that as the first teachers to engage children with mathematics in schools, they are expected to do a number of things to ensure that children are fully prepared to manage with existing and future knowledge of mathematics. They must develop the children' foundation in mathematics through a proper selection and utilisation of content. Foundation phase teachers are seen as the front line of mathematics because of their huge responsibility of preparing children for careers that require increasingly demanding levels of mathematical skill and thinking. It is recommended that mathematics teachers need a deep understanding and knowledge of the mathematics they are teaching to enable them to facilitate effective learning and development of skills to children. It is further important for teachers of mathematics to constantly improve their knowledge and skills of teaching mathematics to enable them to meet the challenges of today's mathematics.
- Subjects
MATHEMATICS education; PRIMARY schools; TEACHER training; CURRICULUM; ACADEMIC achievement
- Publication
Journal of Education Research, 2017, Vol 11, Issue 3, p303
- ISSN
1935-052X
- Publication type
Article