Category: TLM CoP News

Academics offer solutions for the challenges encountered during Mathematics Teaching Practice

South Africa’s public universities face shared challenges regarding Teaching Practice (TP) and giving students the best possible experience. These include lack of communication, supervision and guidance. However, when correct...

Mathematics Teacher Practice during the 4th Industrial Revolution

Teaching Practice (TP) is a vital component of teacher education and training because it provides student teachers with an opportunity to gain experience in the workplace and to apply...

The importance of ICTs in Teacher Education

It is vital that teachers – including students pursuing teaching careers – are digitally literate and understand the enormous benefits of using ICTs (information and communication technologies) when teaching...

First-year mathematics students need intensive support to improve their experience, an on-going study has shown

Intensive support, small groups and repeated exposure to information are some of the interventions needed to improve first-year mathematics students’ experience. These, and other findings from a research project...

Imagining the Mathematical Science Landscape of 2040

What will the mathematical science landscape look like in 2040? Who will teach, what will be taught and how it will be taught? These pertinent questions were raised by...

Projects that explore experience of first year mathematics students unpacked

Early findings of two research projects being undertaken to improve the teaching and learning experience of first year students in mathematics, have exposed problem areas that need to be...

Measures that can be taken to improve first year students’ mathematics experience

First year mathematics students are often in much need of guidance and support. That is why student experience was the focus of the Diagnostic Mathematics Information for Students Retention and...

A collaborative project aimed at improving first year mathematics students’ experience

The facilitation of engaged participation and not just the acquisition of knowledge is the aim of the Community of Practice on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics (TLM CoP),...

A project that will benefit academics, institutions and students unpacked at Mathematics CoP

A moment of thoughts and prayers was dedicated to KwaZulu Natal communities and colleagues at the first meeting for the year, of the Community of Practice for the Teaching...

Technical Mathematics dominates discussions at USAf’s Community of Practice for the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics

The Community of Practice for the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics (TLM CoP) held the first of its quarterly meetings for 2019, at the University of South Africa (UNISA). ...

The Mathematics Teaching & Learning CoP gets off to a busy start

The newly-established Community of Practice for the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics came to a consensus on 31 August, that that there is a mismatch between the academic preparedness...

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