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The use of investigative methods in teaching and learning primary mathematics in Lebowa schools : a case study

- Sebela, Mokgoko Petrus

Authors: Sebela, Mokgoko Petrus
Date: 1999
Subjects: Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Primary) -- South Africa -- Northern Province -- Case studies Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Primary) -- South Africa -- Northern Province
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
Identifier: vital:1814 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003700
Description: This is a report on research conducted in Lebowa (Northern Province) Primary Mathematics Project schools. In view of the high failure rate of matric students, the researcher believes that it is necessary that ways should be devised to improve mathematics understanding from the first level of schooling. A research study was made of constructivist and investigative teaching and learning methods as employed by teachers in a number of primary schools in the area. The researcher believes that investigative and constructivist teaching approaches produce better results than the traditional approach. He further believes that children learn better in a co-operative non-threatening classroom environment. A pilot study was made with two experimental schools and two control schools. The schools were selected from both urban and rural areas. The experimental schools are operating under the PMP and the control schools are not. The experimental schools are also supported by expert teachers called key teachers. Many of these key teachers have attended courses at Leeds University, while others have been trained locally in the theory and practice of constructivist and investigative teaching and learning. Chapter 3 illustrates clearly what is done in the Project schools. The methodology employed in the research included qUestionnaire responses from 174 teachers. Written tests by four schools (350 pupils), and interviews with 55 people, including directors of education, inspectors, principals, teachers and parents. Observations in classes were also done. Another questionnaire was given to 484 pupils. The tests were mitten on two occasions: an initial test was written during November 1993, the second year of the PMP project, while a second test was written the following year. Data collected was analysed and positive results obtained. The results from the tests indicated that pupils in experimental schools where constructivist and investigative approaches are used, perform better than those from schools where the traditional approach is still used. They indicated that children in PMP schools develop a better understanding of mathematics. This would seem to indicate that the constructivist and investigative approach to teaching produces better results than the traditional approaches. The reader will find graphs indicating the results and their analysis in Chapters 4 and 5. It is recommended by the researcher that: - Constructivist and investigative teaching and learning methods be introduced to all schools. - The services of key teachers be supported by the Department - The Department should equip all schools with the necessary materials for proper teaching and learning, or provide materials for schools to make their own teaching aids. - Teachers be involved with materials production where they are given guidance on how teaching aids can be made. - The curriculum for primary school mathematics be revised and changed, especially in view of the fact that at present it does not cater for local needs. It was planned by whites and it caters mainly for those with an European cultural background.
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The Virtual Remote Control-An Extensible, Virtual Reality, User Interface Device

- Rorke, Michael, Bangay, Shaun D

Authors: Rorke, Michael , Bangay, Shaun D
Date: 1999
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/432743 , vital:72896 , https://www.cs.ru.ac.za/research/Groups/vrsig/pastprojects/013interaction/paper02.pdf
Description: Immersive virtual reality (VR) places the user inside of the computing envi-ronment, blurring the distinction between the environment itself and the user interface to access that environment non-obvious. This lack of distinction between environment and interface makes it difficult to place menus and other interface elements where the user is both able to access them easily and where they do not obscure large parts of the users field of view. We propose a system called the 'Virtual Remote Control' (VRC). The VRC con-sists of a physical device (a small touchpad tracked using a Polhemus In-sideTrak magnetic tracker) which the user is able to hold and for which there is a representation in the virtual environment. The VRC is represented in the environment by a virtual menu. The user is able to make selections from the virtual menu by moving their finger around the touch pad part of the VRC and 'tapping' on the required action. Additionally, the user is able to select an object for the action to be applied on, by 'pointing' the representa-tion of the VRC at the object-as one would point a remote control at a Hi-fi of TV set.
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The Winter's Tale shaping our own Renaissance. A play for the 21st Century

- Wright, Laurence

Authors: Wright, Laurence
Date: 1999
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455874 , vital:75464 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA1011582X_198
Description: The Winters Tale is an extraordinarily elusive play. My contention in this paper" is that, just as Hamlet became the Shakespearean drama for the nineteenth century, and King Lear spoke deeply to the twentieth centu-ry, so it may well be that The Winters Tale will take centre stage for the new millennium. We used to know what the play was about in an easy, non-problematic fashion. It was about repentance and reconciliation; it was about the cycle of the seasons; it was about the Pandosto sub-title,“The Triumph of Time"; later, it became a tricksy celebration of con-tention between Art and Nature (despite the considerable discomfort inflicted upon the dramatis personae), an experiment in the new genre of tragicomedy, or a glittering theatrical tour de force–a romance, but heartless and rather empty. I would maintain that beneath all such read-ings is the assumption that the play is really “a winter's tale': a some-what inconsequential yarn suitable for whiling away a cold evening round the fireside, a view often infused with some lingering taint of the Edwardian view that Shakespeare had “gone sloppy” in his technique."
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Date Issued: 1999

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The Women’s Development Foundation Award to Moshito Rosina Victoria Mashigo

- The Women's Development Foundation

Authors: The Women's Development Foundation
Date: 1999 , 2022-09-06
Subjects: Bam, Brigalia , Mashigo, Moshito Rosina Victoria - Awards
Language: English
Type: realia
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/56181 , vital:56014
Description: The Women’s Development Foundation Award to Moshito Rosina Victoria Mashigo, "honoring your contribution to the 1st Democratic National Assembly of the Republic of South Africa 1994 – 1999". , Donated/gifted to Nelson Mandela University Archives , Forms part of: Brigalia Bam collection
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