Maths Literacy Teacher's Network

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Welcome to our community of practice for mathematical literacy teachers in South Africa. Here we will share experiences, resources, fun and information. We will look over each other's shoulders and learn from one another.

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Welcome to our Maths lit community for teachers

We will use this network to help everybody keep up to date on the latest developments in Mathematical literacy (ML), debate and discuss issues, share resources, blog about and discuss "How I teach", keep track of curriculum document and discuss textbooks. This group is private so that we can feel free to discuss resources, tests and exams. As a member you will be able to invite other members who you feel will be able to add value to our maths lit community of practice. Any ML teachers, ML publishers, teacher supporters, student teachers, ML material developers are welcome to join. Our main focus here will be on the learning and teaching of maths literacy!!! No learners are allowed here!

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Johan Smit added 2 discussionsyesterday

Sonja Nel replied to Maggie Verster's discussion 'Gr 12 IEB Papers with memorandums end 2008 (English& Afrikaans)'yesterday

Hi daar Nicky Ek hoop die is die regte weergawe. Ek kan onthou dat ek na die tyd 'n regstelling gemaak het maar weet nie of dit hier al reggemaak is nie. Wisgroete Sonja

Sonja Nel replied to Maggie Verster's discussion 'Gr 12 IEB Papers with memorandums end 2008 (English& Afrikaans)'yesterday

Hier is die Afrikaanse weergawe

Sonja Nel replied to Mfana's discussion 'Maths paper 2 memo'yesterday

Hi there Mfana I hope that this is the correct version of the memo.Please let me know if you guys find a mistake. Dear Maggie will youpleaseput this in the correct place? Thanks Sonja

Erna Lampen, Paseka Ndleleni, Vilana Mandlenkosi and 5 more joined Maths Literacy Teacher's Networkon Friday

Mari Janse van Rensburg replied to Maggie Verster's discussion 'A great free online tool that is realy WOW WOW WOW for learning outcome 4!'on Friday

I would love to work with you on this. I have no idea how it works but I will work through it. My email adres is marijansevanrensburg@yahoo.com. Mari

Maggie Verster added a videoon Thursday

Elelemtary mathematics

Maggie Verster added 3 discussionson Thursday

Ramabele replied to Ramabele's discussion 'REsearch on Maths Literacy'on Wednesday

Hi Maggy I was looking forward to be part of the conference. due to unforseen circumstances I could not make it. Please update us on the latest developments in the subject and other matter relating to the conference. Thats Ramabele

Maggie Verster replied to Maggie Verster's discussion 'Community reflection: What value do you derive from this community?'on Tuesday

LOL Dont worry the only reason why we are asking this quesiton is so that we can all move on to the next level namely to not only use and share resources (please please go on doing that) but to actually discuss how we are teaching ML using the res...

Janet Hyde replied to Maggie Verster's discussion 'Community reflection: What value do you derive from this community?'on Tuesday

I think it is brilliant and since I have signed up I have used the resources on the site extensively. Please do not stop the great work. Janet Hyde

Gabi Witthaus left a comment for Maggie VersterJune 30

Maggie Verster left a comment for Gabi WitthausJune 30

Maggie Verster replied to Ramabele's discussion 'REsearch on Maths Literacy'June 29

Hi Ramabele, We are at the AMesa conference and what you are saying has actually been said by both Penny and the keynote speaker. Keep and eye here, we will report and twitter from here.....

Ramabele replied to Ramabele's discussion 'REsearch on Maths Literacy'June 26

Phambili means forward

Maggie Verster replied to Ramabele's discussion 'REsearch on Maths Literacy'June 25

Totally agree...but what does phambili means?????

Ramabele added a discussionJune 25

REsearch on Maths Literacy

I think it is time for us as maths lit educators to research on teaching and learning of the subjects. The university students have done some but I think we experience so many things daily that can be research and shared with the maths lit communi...

A discussion started by Maggie Verster was featuredJune 22

Community reflection: What value do you derive from this community?

I need some quick feedback on if this community brings you any real value on a personal level, as a ML teacher and as a resource site. Feel free to share frustrations with the community and some suggestions as well..... (I need it to update my pa...

A discussion started by Johan Smit was featuredJune 22

Sharing of resources

Hi there One can hardly believe that it is 21 June, the shortest day and the longest night of the year!! I am sure that you are all very busy marking papers and calculating marks to see how the learners have performed this year. This community ca...

Maggie Verster replied to Johan Smit's discussion 'Sharing of resources'June 22

Thank you Johan for starting this off. I will go through all the materials that was submitted way back and tag it for you to use. (Hopefully I will have time off after the Amesa conference) If you go through the reasons that people give for joini...

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LO 3, Matryoshka house

Hi there I trust that you are all enjoying the winter break and that you are recharging your batteries for the last six months of the year. Attached are two plans for matryoshka houses. I think th...

Tagged: scale, prisms, LO3

Started by Johan Smit in Announcements 1 day ago.

Gr 12 IEB Papers with memorandums end 2008 (English& Afrikaans) 11 Replies

Thanks to Sonja for uploading these for us. I am copying them here so that it does not get lost and so that I can bookmark it properly! Just click on the links to access the papers: English MATH ...

Tagged: 2008, vraestelle, afrikaans, memos, p1

Started by Maggie Verster in Resources. Last reply by Sonja Nel 1 day ago.

Maths paper 2 memo 1 Reply

Where could I possibly find the memo for the OAER Maths Lit paper 2 because I have been searching and the only memo I could find was for paper 1?

Started by Mfana in Announcements. Last reply by Sonja Nel 1 day ago.

A great free online tool that is realy WOW WOW WOW for learning outcome 4! 1 Reply

I am soooo excited. Every now and again I discover a tool that really makes my heart beat faster and this one is it!!!! It is called Gapminder world and it is a tool that has been developed by Goo...

Tagged: LO4, gapminder, ict, statistics, software

Started by Maggie Verster in ICT in the maths lit class. Last reply by Mari Janse van Rensburg 3 Jul.

ASSESSING MATHS LIT EXAMS

Here is Jackie's presentation on how to assess ML exams. Please comments below....(I am loading it in advance so that she can incorporatere your questions into her workshop. Assessing Maths Lit Ex...

Tagged: presentation, assessment, exams

Started by Maggie Verster in Resources 2 Jul.

The Interpretation Of Quartiles And Percentiles

Here is Jackies presentation: Please feel free to ask questions and give input below. The Interpretation Of Quartiles And Percentiles July 2009 View more documents from Maggie Verster.

Tagged: statistics, LO4, Quartiles And Percentiles

Started by Maggie Verster in Resources 2 Jul.

REsearch on Maths Literacy 4 Replies

Started by Ramabele in Announcements. Last reply by Ramabele 1 Jul.

Community reflection: What value do you derive from this community? 10 Replies

Tagged: feedback, community of practice

Started by Maggie Verster in Help needed/offered. Last reply by Maggie Verster 30 Jun.

Amesa conference 2009

Hi all!!! We are here at the AMESA conference in Bloemfontein and will be highlighting some of the papers that are happening here. The conference programme can be found here:http://academic.sun.a...

Tagged: amesa, workshops, conferences

Started by Maggie Verster in Announcements 29 Jun.

Sharing of resources 1 Reply

Hi there One can hardly believe that it is 21 June, the shortest day and the longest night of the year!! I am sure that you are all very busy marking papers and calculating marks to see how the le...

Tagged: resources, share

Started by Johan Smit in Help needed/offered. Last reply by Maggie Verster 22 Jun.

Blog Posts

More active on the web

I now have better access and will be more active on the MLTN. The other maths lit staff at our school should be online and active soon.
I have lots of resources. powerpoints and good web sites which i will post.

Posted by Hugh Smith on 5 March 2009 at 9:10am — 1 Comment

Those cute answers!

Students were asked in an exam paper which we wrote in Nov '08 about salaries and income, and were given a specific example which included a payslip of an imaginary person, which we will call Peter just for this blog. Testing their knowledge about deductions from a salary, they were asked why Peter's salary was not the same as the 'bruto' (we are Afrikaans) salary. One of my students answered: "Because Bruto is not married.!

Posted by Christel Durie on 2 February 2009 at 3:56pm — 2 Comments

Maggie's paper presented at teh e/merge conference 2008

Dear all ML community members

5 minutes ago I was part of the delegation when Maggie presented her paper based on the Maths Literacy community of practice. What a good presentation. Maggie has created an excellent platform for us to work from. Thanks Maggie

Posted by Sandra on 15 July 2008 at 4:09pm

Amesa Conference

I am here at the Amesa conference and I am glad to report that there are a LOT of maths lit on the programme. I will try to go to all ML sessions (or if I can't I will get someone to report back)

Quite hectic....850 people registered for the congress...bedlum.

Posted by Maggie Verster on 30 June 2008 at 12:40pm

MATHS LIT AND UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE

I have done some research at a couple of unis and technikons .. the admissions officers told me that they will often accept a decent mark in Mathslit for all but pure maths, engineering or medical courses. They make a decision also based on the grades in relevant subjects, e.g. a good mark in mathslit plus a good mark in accountancy/ economics will get you into B.Comm. Of course this depends also on the standard of entries for the year, but allover, no reason for anybody taking maths lit to thin… Continue

Posted by CAROLYN NESER on 26 June 2008 at 3:55pm — 1 Comment