The results announced on Tuesday by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga are a testimony to those dedicated teachers who dutifully go about their huge daily task of guiding young people to one day be able to take advantage of future opportunities to be key players in the economic mainstream of the country.
Mathematics remains one of the leading instructional offerings in our vastly competitive society, as it helps to develop the analytical mind and reveals hidden patterns that assist us to understand our complex world. The underpinnings of everyday life are rapidly becoming increasingly mathematical and technological. In other words, maths and technology are becoming inextricable as we approach the fourth industrial revolution.
There is a widely shared view that inculcating basic arithmetic skills at primary school level is a crucial strategy to enable learners to master mathematics, science and accounting at secondary level. The few educators of science and mathematics who are in the system can now command a premium, indicating how acute the national shortage of these teachers is. Pupils are disaffected and no longer value maths-based careers. Instead, they are dazzled by commercial and other studies, and the signal of crashing stock prices has not yet choked such demand.
Reading, writing and arithmetic – the three Rs – have historically been at the core of schooling. Looking at how badly our arithmetic rates fall short compared to other African countries is worrisomeOne of the other fundamental errors of our public schools is the failure to have coherent and systemic plans to assist pupils to make the right choices in terms of optional subjects they are competent in when they get to Grade 10.
The gap emerged before these pupils entered into the system based on socioeconomic status. These challenges have become more acute, and can only be resolved if a great deal of effort is put into building and fixing our public schools to bring them on par with private schools.
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