University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Mathematics. Umthamo 5 Developing and Using Number Concepts
In this umthamo we ask:"How do learners think about number?' We explore learners' thinking. And begin to start the process of thinking more carefully about how young children develop their mathematical ideas, skills, and attitudes. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Natural Science. Umthamo 6: Gardening and Guarding Our Heritage Plants
This umthamo aims to increase understanding of the natural environment around the school and will explore the rich floral heritage of the Eastern Cape. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Natural Science. Umthamo 5: Fair Tests
The outcome of this umthamo relate to integrating the way children think and work scientifically in the classroom. There will be a focus on experimenting, as well as the related process skills of using time relationships and controlling and manipulating variables. Teachers will also be asked to reflect on their role as they help learners develop these science skills. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Natural Science. Umthamo 4: Finding Out More About Science
This umthato focuses on the living world and emphasizes the value of integrating different learning areas. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Natural Science. Umthamo 3: Investigation and Inquiry-based Science
In this umthato teachers and learners will build on the development of science process skills by trying activities that promote an inquiry-based approach to science learning. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Natural Science. Umthamo 2: What's Happening Here?
In this umthamo we continue to think about some of the science process skills. We will continue to base the work on the natural science strand, /Matter and Materials/, but this time it will also be linked to the strand /Energy and change. /In the previous umthamo the focus was on the science skills of observation and predication. This time the skills of inference and developing theories is... more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Education Studies Course: Schools as Learning Communities. Umthamo 2: What is a 'Quality School'?
This umthamo will help teachers develop their own pictures of a quality school in the Eastern Cape. This will be done through surveying the school stakeholders and examining an effectiveness, relevance and efficiency approach in studying quality. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Mathematical Literacy, Mathematics and Mathematical Science. Umthamo 6: Dealing with Data: Using Data to Interact with our Social and Natural Environment
This mthamo deals with ideas of how to teach data better. It introduces you to some ideas and approaches for a new area of the primary mathematics curriculum called data handling. Some of the questions that will be explored are: * What is data? Where do we find data? Why is data handling important. There will be activities that include: * Using a model, or process of stages as a basis for... more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Mathematical Literacy, Mathematics and Mathematical Science. Umthamo 5: Shaping Teaching to Make Space for Learning
The main focus here is on reshaping our own ways of teaching, in order to allow learners to have space to explore and investigate mathematics. This is more likely to change our learners' attitudes towards mathematics. If maths is fun and exciting their attitude to mathematics is more likely to be positive. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Mathematical Literacy, Mathematics and Mathematical Science. Umthamo 4: Developing Mathematical Thinking Using Patterns
This mthamo highlights the value of patterns to develop mathematical thinking. Patterns permeate our lives, and it is useful to explore them with our learners as we study mathematics together. more