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Stott, Debbie; Baart, Noluntu; Graven, Mellony – Africa Education Review, 2019
A key intervention of the South African Numeracy Chair Project (SANCP) since 2011 has been the introduction of mathematics (or maths) clubs, which occur in the out-of-school time space. In 2016 the maths club concept was developed into a 15-week Pushing for Progression (PfP) teacher development programme which supports primary school mathematics…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Numeracy, Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness
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Ally, Noor; Christiansen, Iben Maj – Perspectives in Education, 2013
In this article, we propose a rubric for assessing the teacher's provision of opportunities to develop mathematical proficiency in classrooms. The rubric is applied to data from 30 video recordings of mathematics lessons taught in Grade 6 in one district of KwaZulul-Natal. The results suggest that opportunities to develop procedural fluency are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills, Grade 6
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Sapire, Ingrid; Sorto, M. Alejandra – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2012
This study focuses on quantifying the quality of mathematics teaching in 183 randomly selected sixth grade classrooms: 100 from the North West province of South Africa and 83 from South East Botswana. The teaching quality is measured by coding videotaped lessons for three different components: mathematical proficiency, level of cognitive demand,…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction