South Africa's shocking mathematics performance

[Jamie McKane]

South Africa's shocking mathematics performance

Mathematics performance among South African learners remains shockingly poor, as more learners choose to take Mathematics Literacy over core Mathematics.

The recent matric results announced by Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga reflected a pass rate of 76.2%, down by more than five percentage points compared with last year's results.

 

[Lupus]

The amount of money spent on education you'd think we would be up there, but then you see they spend 150k on a water tank that should only cost R2k.

 

[3WA]

It's true - South Africans don’t want to integrate.

 

[Moosedrool]

Maths is being successfully decolonialised.

 

[Pegging]

What’s going on in the pic here?

 

[Zophos]

What’s going on in the pic here?

Those are letters, and not numbers, so I understand your confusion....

Oh wait, you mean that those marks should average out to a C and not an F....Well, teachers now are also part of the 30%ers.... and apparently so am I.

 

[WollieVerstege]

What’s going on in the pic here?

It implies that someone is so dumb they even fail a test based on multiple choice questions

 

[Pegging]

It implies that someone is so dumb they even fail a test based on multiple choice questions

I don’t see the questions marked there.

And these days an F is a pass.

 

[ConfusedR]

The ANC government want to introduce new subjects like robotics but the kids can't even do maths, wont do maths, are too lazy to do maths or are too stupid to do maths.
But the kids will do brilliantly with subjects to prepare them for the 4th industrial revolution.

 

[MrGray]

Maths literacy is not an "alternative" to maths. It's a cop out.

 

[Hamster]

Leave 'em. Math is stupid anyway, what we want is comp sci and robots classes!

 

[system32]

Maths is being successfully decolonialised.

+1

Mathematics is racist and must be decolonised!​

We demand it.

 

[borro]

Apple IPads for everyone.

 

[Kodi]

Don't need maths to get a social grant. Get rid of the subject.

 

[HavocXphere]

Fourth industrial revolution going well I see

What’s going on in the pic here?

She's licking a book and not enjoying it by the looks of it

 

[Pegging]

Fourth industrial revolution going well I see


She's licking a book and not enjoying it by the looks of it

No that you mention it.
Could be aone of those hot teachers forcing a young man to "F" her or he gets a different "F".

Maybe a Maths teacher and a part-time water polo instructer.

 

[rustypup]

The truly depressing bit being that mathematics is fundamental to logic, rational thinking and problem solving.

Explains so very much and represents the worst possible outcomes for all involved.

 

[RonSwanson]

Maths is being successfully decolonialised.

True. Ancestral worship studies will compensate for that.

 

[richjdavies]

Without maths you can't have a 2nd industrial revolution, forget a 4th!

 

[Polymathic]

The truly depressing bit being that mathematics is fundamental to logic, rational thinking and problem solving.

Explains so very much and represents the worst possible outcomes for all involved.

I used to A-B student in maths right up to Grade 9 but struggled with Maths beyond that point. and scraped passed in Matric. If anything the teaching methodology in Maths in schools favors people who are naturally inclined to the subject. I had to do 2 stats module in university and a lot of it had to do with concepts I struggled with in school the difference is that this time I was actually thought the concepts which seemed really simple, so simple that I eventually passed with over 75%

Thinking back, the pace that we went through the syllabus was dictated by the A students and everybody else had to catch on their own time.