Errors in South African secondary school mathematics textbooks

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dc.contributor.advisorWebb, Johnen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorHarris, Carolen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-16T20:02:08Z
dc.date.available2014-11-16T20:02:08Z
dc.date.issued1998en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: leaves 97-101.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractSince 1960 various new topics were introduced into the South African mathematics syllabus for high schools. This was generally described as "New Maths". These topics were characterised by an emphasis on mathematical structure (set theory, groups, rings and fields, the construction of the real number system, relations and functions, vectors and mathematical induction). Textbooks that were published in South Africa during this time have been found to contain numerous significant mathematical errors, especially in connection with these new topics. This project has entailed the collection, classification and commentary on these problems. It has involved a study of a range of texts from Standards 6 to 10. The methodology utilised entailed reading as many maths textbooks as we could find in libraries such as Education libraries. Other sources of textbooks were from the library of the Mathematics Education Project (MEP)(of the University of Cape Town), private collections and second hand bookshops. Some misconceptions arise across a range of texts indicating that either a general misunderstanding has occurred or that authors have used one another's work in their research. We conducted a search for mathematical errors and not minor misprints, arithmetical slips, algebraic errors, mistakes in answers at the back of the book, spelling or grammatical mistakes.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationHarris, C. (1998). <i>Errors in South African secondary school mathematics textbooks</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9684en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationHarris, Carol. <i>"Errors in South African secondary school mathematics textbooks."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9684en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationHarris, C. 1998. Errors in South African secondary school mathematics textbooks. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Harris, Carol AB - Since 1960 various new topics were introduced into the South African mathematics syllabus for high schools. This was generally described as "New Maths". These topics were characterised by an emphasis on mathematical structure (set theory, groups, rings and fields, the construction of the real number system, relations and functions, vectors and mathematical induction). Textbooks that were published in South Africa during this time have been found to contain numerous significant mathematical errors, especially in connection with these new topics. This project has entailed the collection, classification and commentary on these problems. It has involved a study of a range of texts from Standards 6 to 10. The methodology utilised entailed reading as many maths textbooks as we could find in libraries such as Education libraries. Other sources of textbooks were from the library of the Mathematics Education Project (MEP)(of the University of Cape Town), private collections and second hand bookshops. Some misconceptions arise across a range of texts indicating that either a general misunderstanding has occurred or that authors have used one another's work in their research. We conducted a search for mathematical errors and not minor misprints, arithmetical slips, algebraic errors, mistakes in answers at the back of the book, spelling or grammatical mistakes. DA - 1998 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1998 T1 - Errors in South African secondary school mathematics textbooks TI - Errors in South African secondary school mathematics textbooks UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9684 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/9684
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationHarris C. Errors in South African secondary school mathematics textbooks. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, 1998 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9684en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Mathematics and Applied Mathematicsen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherMathematicsen_ZA
dc.titleErrors in South African secondary school mathematics textbooksen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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dc.type.qualificationnameMScen_ZA
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