• Convening a stakeholder workshop in Johannesburg and East London with Educators, organisations, individuals, government officials, funders, etc who are involved in the development of Mathematics.
• Conducting 2 two-day workshops with Grade 12 Mathematics Educators in Johannesburg and East London.
• Development of a web application for Grade 12 Mathematics Educators to create and print question papers with its memorandum based on selections made from a question bank.
• Develop a portal for Mathematics which will host the application and enable teachers to upload questions with answers they have produced.
• Research the use of free/libre and open source applications for Mathematics.

• Test the web application
• Contribute Mathematics content
• Attend the Mathematics educators workshop in Gauteng (Johannesburg) or Eastern Cape (East London). This offer applies to those who reside in Johannesburg or East London.
• Quality control the questions and answers
• If you want a copy of the training manual
• Attend the stakeholder workshop in Gauteng (Johannesburg) or Eastern Cape (East London). This applies to those who reside in Johannesburg or East London.
• Be kept up to date with developments or you want to participate in the project

CECS received a grant from the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) in 2005 to implement an ICT Literacy project in 7 Southern African countries. One of the deliverables was the development of an ICT training programme for teachers. After some investigations, CECS decided to develop an ICT training course for high-school mathematics teachers. A training manual was subsequently developed and piloted on 13 May 2006 with 11 high school mathematics teachers based in Gauteng.

CECS conducted two short training sessions at Sci-Bono for maths teachers in 2007 during the Maths Week which was organised by the Association for Mathematics Educators in S A (AMESA). These training sessions were well-received by the teachers and they were hoping for more training to take place.

CECS, on the invitation of Maggie Verster, has also conducted a pre-conference workshop in 2007 for maths teachers as part of the annual AMESA conference. These teachers at the pre-conference workshop hailed from rural schools and were excited by the possibilities ICT presents.

In 2009, SAFIPA provided CECS with support to undertake the following activities:

• Convening a stakeholder workshop in Johannesburg and East London with teachers, organisations, individuals, government officials, funders, etc who are involved in the development of Mathematics

• Conducting 2 two-day workshops with Grade 11 & 12 Mathematics teachers in Johannesburg and East London. A venue needs to be secured for this training.

• Develop of a web application for Grade 12 Mathematics teachers to create and print question papers with its memorandum based on selections made from a question bank.

• Develop a portal for Mathematics which will host the application and enable teachers to upload questions with answers they have produced.

The training offered by CECS is unique. There is nothing comparable in South Africa. This view was confirmed by reviewing materials on the Department of Edccation's Thutong portal, reviewing materials from a number of NGOs.

This means that teachers have to spend an inordinate amount of time preparing materials for class, thus reducing time that vould be better spend on lesson planning and delivering.The training course rectify the situation.

The web application will make it easier for Grade 12 Mathematics teachers to create and print question papers. The question papers will print with the memorandum.

Thus, register on the CECS the website if you want to:

• Test the web application

• Contribute Mathematics content

• Attend the Mathematics Teacher workshop in Johannesburg or East London. This offer applies to those who reside in Johannesburg or East London.

• Quality control the questions and answers

• If you want a copy of the training manual

• Attend the stakeholder workshop in Johannesburg or East London. This applies to those who reside in Johannebsurg or East London.

We would also like to hear from government officials in the Department of Education as well as NGOs who are involved in education and training for teachers in general and Mathematics in particular.

Contact Details

ARNOLD PIETERSEN

Tel: 011-834-3329

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Website: www.cecs.org.za