Elephant Delta Day 2 – Dr Avhasei Richard Tsanwani from The Limpopo Department of Education on Improving mathematics knowledge of educators in the teaching of statistics: A case of continuing professional development
Blogging from The Tenth Southern Hemisphere Conference on the Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics
Paper by Dr Tsanwani here.
Live blogging: Note that these are notes I’ve taken live, but will edit this today into a more readable format. I want to put this up straight away though to see if I have any obvious misunderstanding. Equations will also be put into more readable format ASAP.
MASTEC Institute created in Limpopo because students have been struggling to pass.
In service training of teachers. Training the educators.
Today talking about a small part of MASTEC: Training of educators in data handling: Statistics.
Teachers are expected to have a deep understanding of mathematical content knowledge
Research indicates that those that have majored in mathematics are not exposed much in teaching methods: Not necessarily a good understanding of teaching methods with an emphasis on meaning.
Appropriate classroom discussion is affected a lot by teacher training.…