Grade 12 Maths Examination 2009

The papers were rather challenging, even though the standard was OK. I think there is a need for creating a bank of questions by the examiners so as to make sure that educators are not textbook bound. The thing is, there is very little data to prepare learners towards good examination questions.

Mathematics is one subject discipline where the scope of questioning is unlimited, as a result with a new curriculum, it makes it very difficult to cover as most question dynamics as possible as you can.

I think the new curriculum is good and all it needs is support and continuous learning and development from the side of the educators and DoE in general.

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Revision w ith grade 11!

I have been preparing my math grade 11 for up coming final exams, was really surprised that they have forgotten some basic stuffs on algebra, trig and so on. This is actually discouraging as I had to reteach some concepts and then they remembered.

I am a bit worried about the state of learner memorization and commitment to learning in general. It looks like most of the students just come to school and think that, that makes you to know/learn. That is actually not true as learning a lot of your self reflection on you can or cannot do or remember.

We are really struggling as teachers, may it's about time we consider modular based training, where learners are tested on sections/modules content covered and then move on to the next level.

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