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2024 Foundation Phase Mathematics: Important Components to solve problems
Date:
6 - 28 February 2024
This course is for:
Grade 1 - 3 Principal, Acting Principal, Deputy Principal, Acting Deputy Principal, Departmental Head, Acting Departmental Head, Teacher, Novice Teacher
Applicants must teach in:
Foundation Phase (Grades 1-3)
General Requirements:
Teachers must teachers in the Foundation Phase
Category:
Foundation Phase Mathematics
About this Course
The course will provide teachers with strategies on how learners can:
- Identify and apply skills and knowledge in counting
- Develop thought processes by moving from the concrete to the abstract level
- Develop higher order thinking skills through application of cognitive levels of questioning
- Understand the concepts of number
- Know the importance of teaching the concepts
- Develop learners essential number concept skills
- Understand the different process stages
- Apply knowledge and teaching strategies
- Develop learners essential number concept skills
Content:
- Knowledge and skills of counting
- Importance of estimation
- Rote and rational counting
- Strategies of counting
- Basic skills to enable learners to understand numbers
- Importance of teaching number symbols and names
- Different mathematical concepts on counting and number concepts
- Importance of mathematical language
- Strategies and activities to use in the classroom
Applications are no longer being accepted for this course
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Co-ordinator
Magdalena Benn