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Impact of university lecturers’ intervention in school mathteaching

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Some schools in the neighbourhood of Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU) in South Africa persistently yielded poor mathematics results in the past years. This was of concern since maths is the main subject for many opportunities, including admissiontoSMUstudy programmes. Some SMU maths lecturers partnered with local schools to prepare the students in these schools. The aimwas to improve maths teaching and matric maths results. The teachers were assisted with maths concepts of most difficulty. This article describes the initiatives by some academics of SMU in achieving this.

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  1. Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, PO Box 107, Medunsa, 0204, South Africa

    J. L. Thabane

  2. Statistics and Operations Research, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, PO Box 107, Medunsa, 0204, South Africa

    S. M. Seeletse

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(left) Joel L Thabane is an experienced lecturer of maths, with high qualifications in maths, maths education and some research in teacher education and student support. He also develops models for teaching practice in the maths subject. He was earlier Head of Mathematics and Statistics of Limpopo University, Medunsa Campus.

(right) Solly M Seeletse is Professor of Operations Research and Head of the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the SMU.

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Thabane, J.L., Seeletse, S.M. Impact of university lecturers’ intervention in school mathteaching. Reson 21, 417–427 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-016-0345-1

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