Description of project:
The Stutterheim Education Trust together with Rhodes University Maths Education Project (RUMEP) will deliver four workshops aimed at Grades 4 -7 educators from six schools in the Dimbaza area of the Eastern Cape.The Shuttleworth Foundation’s involvement:
In addition to funding the above-mentioned workshops, the Shuttleworth Foundation will fund the benchmark testing before and after the delivery of the workshops as well as the follow-up visits to each of the six schools.Aims and objectives:
The workshops will solely focus upon Number Sense Development, Fractions, measurement , geometry and date handling which are perceived to be the more difficult areas of mathematics.Timeline and deliverables:
The project commenced earlier in 2003 and the workshops are successfully gaining momentum.Updated Status (December 2003):
The second set of workshops focusing on fractions were held over a day and attended by seventeen intermediate phase educators. The workshops used practical everyday contexts to help educarors understand and explain the basic concepts and terminology of fractions.