Maths vs. Maths Literacy: the continuing debate | Thought Leader

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Matric Results Require Careful Scrutiny

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World Time Zones – Find a Time Zone Map on the Web – Use the Web to Find Time Zones

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The Archivist creates graphs of your twitter info (great 4 class) #day14 #ict4champions

This tool creates visualizations graphs of the data your twitter/hashtag archives. Use it to help you understand trends such as the number of Tweets over time, top users and words, sentiment, and more.

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• – By Maggie Verster

How to Calculate Time Zones

See Carikas discussion here: http://mathsliteracy.ning.com/forum/topics/n-graad-12-projek-ondersoek?

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• – By Maggie Verster

Mathematics: What Time is It?

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Using Excel spreadsheets to calculate Time Zone Conversion

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‘n Graad 12 projek/ondersoek oor timezones- Maths Literacy Teacher’s Network

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Is maths lit valuable for tersiary studies? – Maths Literacy Teacher’s Network

Some past discussions about maths vs maths lit- how far have we moved on from here?

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• – By Maggie Verster

Maths core vs Maths lit – Maths Literacy Teacher’s Network

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Need urgent feedback about Mathslit – Maths Literacy Teacher’s Network

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Scrapping G10 Maths lit and only offering it in G11/G12 – Maths Literacy Teacher’s Network

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Grade 10 Math Lit vs Grade 10 Math – Maths Literacy Teacher’s Network

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Can ML get you into University? – Maths Literacy Teacher’s Network

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‘Wiskundige geletterdheid is ’n euwel’: (Maths literacy is a bad thing)

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‘Go back to basics’ – MEC | Public Eye Online

Another article slamming Mathslit

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• – By Maggie Verster

Grade 10 Work Schedule (CAPS) – Maths Literacy Teacher’s Network

Johan has uploaded his grade 10 work schedules! Thank you Johan!

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• – By Maggie Verster

Grade 11 November Exams – Maths Literacy Teacher’s Network

“I’ve attached the grade 11 papers I set for Nov. Feel free to use them! Please let me know if you see anything glaringly horrible!
The memos are in the same word file as the question paper Sarah”

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• – By Maggie Verster

DBE Mathslit November2011 exams – Maths Literacy Teacher’s Network

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Albanian students’ motives for preferring certain real-life situations for learning mathematics #mathslit

New article published: Albanian students’ motives for preferring certain real-life situations for learning mathematics”

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• – By Maggie Verster

Frequency Distribution Table with Cumulative Frequency – MathsLinks

“For use by students, a Frequency Distribution Table with Cumulative Frequency column. Frequency is entered using +/- buttons, cumulative frequency is entered manually and the tool shows whether the entry is correct (green) or not (red).”

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• – By Maggie Verster

Posted from Diigo. The rest of Mathsliteracy Teachers resources group favorite links are here.

http://mathsliteracy.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/ml-teachers-community-newsletter-and-call-for-feedback/ http://mathsliteracy.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/ml-teachers-community-newsletter-and-call-for-feedback/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:22:52 +0000 Maggie http://mathsliteracy.wordpress.com/?p=325 ]]> One of the things that ML teachers often complain about is the negative perception that “everybody” have about Mathematical Literacy (ML). Jonathan Jansen’s derogatory press statements has not helped either. Some of us have been trying hard to change these negative perceptions but I have not once seen a positive report about Mathematical literacy in the media.  See some of the articles (have also included some journal articles here. (click on link)

A journalist of the Huisgenoot/You have asked me to give input and give our side of the story for an upcoming article on the ML/Maths debate. As our little community has grown to almost 1000 members I feel it is time to give something back and express how you feel about mathematical literacy, the struggles and the successes you have had. Please, now is the time to let your voice be heard.

Note from Kim: “Please note that we have to present a balanced article so you may not like everything we say, but I do want to include both sides of the story.” 

Lets hope for the best. If we do not speak up, we must not complain about negative publicity for ML. Here are the questions that Kim send to me for your to respond to. Feel free to add your your own opinions. If you want to remain anonymous, you can send it to me via e-mail (maggie@maggie.co.za) or you can just respond in the comment section on the community here: http://bit.ly/uELb6r, or complete a fill-in form here: http://bit.ly/tFyXRU 

Other community stuff:

Johan has uploaded a gr 10 Caps workshedule and have been playing with wordclouds and has also morphed into a complete mathslit edutwit. The mathslit DBE papers have been uploaded and quite a few people have left comments, go and add your own. Sarah has already uploaded her gr 11 November papers and I am challenging all of you to do the same! How about clearing out all your papers and uploading it before the start of the new year? Thank you to everybody who make the time to share!

Dropbox-sharing 

I have created a dropbox cloud folder where sharers can quickly save and share their mathslit resources on the fly. For those of you who have not used dropbox before, it is a way to share files without actively uploading them. It is a little piece of software that you install on your computer which create a folder on your computer. Everything you save into that folder automatically upload to the cloud folder (you get 2GB free space) from where it auto-magically update on everybody’s (who are part of the shared folder) computers.See my how-to document here.

As a way to encourage sharing and community involvement, we have decided to extend dropbox  folder access to the following “Golden” people:

• Those who have shared at least 4 resources in the community. AND
• Those who have made the trouble to give feedback to others who have uploaded resources (and I am not talking about quick thank-you’s but constructive feedback) (at least 4 comments) AND
• Those who have started a discussion topic or blog on any mathslit topic.

 

If you fall into this category, please let me know so that I can add you. I am busy going through all the members (almost 1000 of us now) to check who qualify for “Gold membership”. If all of us just share 1 resource a month, just think about what an amazing database of valuable resources we will have! I will schedule a webinar early next year so that we can talk about how we will manage the resources in this community next year in a fair, free and equitable way.

Twitter un-workshop

Our twitter unworkshop have a  few #mathslit teachers as you can notice from our healthy twitter stream on the community and twitter (see here https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23mathslit). But we still need lots more of you if we want to see the value of #mathslit twittering!  You are still welcome to come in and join in the learning fun. The online workshop is on till the end of January and if you complete all the activities (easy and quick and at your own pace) you will receive an endorsed certificate of completion stating that you are an edu-twit. Something to strive for. To become part of it follow the instructions here: http://maggiev.edublogs.org/workshops-conferences-webinars/twitter-online-workshop/

Thank you to our sponsor

Last but not least I would like to to extend a warm thank you to Ken and Wally from Casio for seeing the importance of sponsoring a voluntary teachers professional community like ours as well as online professional development in the form of informal workshops. I thank you dearly! It would be great if all of you could go and leave a message on their facebook page (or just like their page) here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Casio-SA/111159085624854.

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Mean Median and Mode Song – YouTube

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New article published: The interplay of language and mathematics

This article deals with an intervention unit which focused on the positive effect of integrating poems, stories and fables (the literary genre) for improving mathematical language, fostering the teaching of mathematics language, increasing satisfaction with the process and strengthening the relationship between use of daily language and mathematics language. The study was conducted amongst pre-service mathematics teachers, specialising in literacy activities designed to foster mathematics language.

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• – By Maggie Verster

Maths Literacy Teacher’s Network-Gr11 November papers

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Maths and Sport: Countdown to the 2012 Games

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DBE Mathslit November2011 exams – Maths Literacy Teacher’s Network

A faxed copy of the paper. Some of the teachers have already started commenting- go and add our voice.

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• – By Maggie Verster

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CAPS – Maths Literacy Teacher’s Network

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Math: Getting in step with rest of country. Was this fling with integrated math doomed from the start? | Get Schooled

Interesting article- applicable to us?

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• – By Maggie Verster

Posted from Diigo. The rest of Mathsliteracy Teachers resources group favorite links are here.

Many Eyes: A visualisation tool from your own datasets

This could be a great tool to use with students in the clasrrom. They can research their won dataset and visualise it.

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• – By Maggie Verster

Praetor Education Technology #mathslit resource downloads

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Maths Literacy Exam School Paper 2 on MIndset TV

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Funny Math Test Exam Answers, Possible Math Homework Help Needed

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Nuwe Handboeke vir 2012 – Maths Literacy Teacher’s Network

Have any of you decided on whiich textbooks to use in 2012?

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• – By Maggie Verster

Podcasts – Maths Literacy Teachers round-up by Maggie Verster

I have clean forgot that I created this podcasting station- need to upload some of my recorded ML conference talks again!

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• – By Maggie Verster

Posted from Diigo. The rest of Mathsliteracy Teachers resources group favorite links are here.

Statistics South Africa

Mathematics games and interactives

Brombacher & Associates: Lots of maths/mathslit resources to download

Maximum Capacity Game

In Maximum Capacity, you play the role of an elevator attendant who must bring as many gorillas as possible to the eighth floor for the annual Gorilla’s Ball at the Jungle Hotel! The only problem is, the doors to the ball close in three minutes, and there are still hundreds of anxious gorillas waiting. Bring as many as you can to the eighth floor in three minutes.

Connexions – Siyavula (South African school resources)

Maths Excellence: lots of resources here!

Lots of local and global mathematics resources for learners

Pinelands G12 trials Sept 2011 – Maths Literacy Teacher’s Network #mathslit

Pythagoras Vol 32, No 1 (2011) is now available

http://www.brombacher.co.za/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2011/06/L2-Unit-1-Data.pdf

In this unit students develop a variety of mathematical skills including: • Data collection and organisation, using a questionnaire about grocery stores, brand names and cell-phones.• Graphical representation of the data collected using bar graphs and pie charts.• Understanding cumulative data, as well as developing and interpreting frequency tables. • Analysis of data to answer questions, using graphs and tables.• Reading and interpreting fi gures, in the context of a newspaper report concerning skills development. • Calculating the various measures of central tendency and percentages in the context of workers and wages.• Working with range and spread of data.• Identifying distortion and manipulation of information.• Identifying patterns and trends,  through working with scatterplots and broken line graphs.• Making simple predictions and comparisons.

Great mathematics and #mathslit downloads from Brombacher & Associates

Maths Excellence > Resources > Maths Lit

Learn Xra Grade 12 Saturday School #mathslit Lessons from @Mindset

Malati mathematics materials

All the materials developed by MALATI are in the public domain. They may be freely used and adapted, with acknowledgement to MALATI and the Open Society Foundation for South Africa.

The documents provided here are the teacher documents, consisting of the learner activities and accompanying teacher notes. We also include the rationale document for each content area, giving background on the underlying philosophy and design principles.

Mathematical Literacy resources from Mindset Learn

Assessment and re-mediation of the pre-requisite knowledge 4 Mathslit teachers

Numbers,
Order of Operations
Patterns and Relationships
Percentage
Proportion
Rate
Ratio
Space, Shape and Orientation