2011 Grade 12 Maths + Maths Lit Exam Papers

Here are the departmental Mathematics and Maths Literacy exam papers and memos for 2011. With the final exams coming up, they are a great revision tool for learners to make sure they are ready. Good Luck! Mathematics: Grade 12 Maths March 2011 Paper 1 Grade 12 Maths March 2011 Paper 1 – Memo Grade 12 Maths [...]

2011 SA Maths Challenge around the corner

Schools, classes and individuals are once again invited to compete in another exciting and educational SA Maths Challenge due to take place on the 26 to 27 September. The challenge, which is free to all learners from Grade R right through to grade 12, enables anybody to take part in real time maths challenges powered [...]

Win a Grade 12 Maths course worth R5,400!

Great news at the start of the third school term! GetSmarter, a high-touch online education company, and Teacher’s Monthly are giving away a place in the upcoming Cambridge University Press Grade 12 Mathematics course worth R5,400. As a Teacher’s Monthly reader, you can nominate ANY Grade 12 learner who you think deserves to go on this course for FREE.

New online maths course for Grade 12′s

School learners spend their entire school careers working up to one final goal: passing their matric exams and ensuring a better chance at tertiary education and work in future. In recent years the matric maths pass rate has been frightening with only 30% of the candidates achieving pass marks high enough for university entrance. Cape [...]

New SA maths software to boost results

“High School Maths is important because it is the most widely used subject in the world. Doing maths helps the mind to reason and organise complicated situations or problems into clear, simple, and logical steps. High paying jobs often demand someone who can take complicated situations and simplify them to the level that everyone can [...]

Elearning: A solution to matric maths problem?

Passionate Cape Town maths and science teacher, Paul Carter, has teamed up with Cambridge University Press and South Africa’s leading online training company to create an eLearning project that he hopes will help improve the struggling matric maths pass rate. Carter feels this is the next step in his quest to make maths more accessible [...]

Find past exam papers quickly

Past exam papers are normally a mission to find. TestGrab, a new service launched recently by EvaluNet, offers past exam papers for download from their web site, all based on the grade 12 matric exams for South Africa. Subjects included are: Accounting Afrikaans Business Studies CAT Consumer Studies Economics English Geography History Hospitality Studies IT [...]

Practical Spatial Literacy March Theme: Direction

Our Spatial Literacy theme for March is one of the simplest of Spatial Literacy concepts, that of Direction. This falls into the Location category (see my previous article about categories). In South Africa, we start teaching Direction in early grades but formally in Grades 4, 5 and 6 as it is an integral part of [...]

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