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AIMSSEC

AIMSSEC is a schools mathematics enrichment programme offering free learning resources for learners of all ages from 5 to 18+ years together with professional development courses for teachers. All AIMSSEC activities are free for teachers and learners.

GLOBAL LINKS FOR SCHOOLS. AIMSSEC, with Cambridge University Motivate, offers video-conference mathematics and science lessons linking schools around the world.

Professional Development Courses for Mathematics Educators of Grades 4 to 12

This is a group of lecturers, teachers, field trainers and subject advisers who attended the AIMSSEC 10-day residential courses at Stellenbosch High School in January 2010 for the ACE and the Mathematical Thinking Courses.




MATHEMATICAL THINKING, PROBLEM SOLVING AND TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING AND LEARNING MATHEMATICS 


Ten day residential courses followed by three months distance learning are 
  offered in the school holidays in different venues in South Africa for educators 
  working in historically disadvantaged schools. 


 The next residential courses will be at Stellenbosch High School, W.Cape: 

 MT 14: registration 28 June - ends 8 July 2010. 


The course has been run thirteen times for a total of 587 educators  from all the South African provinces, including 40 subject advisers and field trainers. There is a long waiting list for this highly popular course.  Bursaries are offered to teachers from different provinces for each course. 


The Certificate of Further Professional  Studies is awarded, after the end of the three month distance learning phase,  on satisfactory completion of a 2000 word assignment reflecting on the  implementation in your own classroom of the teaching strategies  and resources developed on the course. Some of the educators who do well  in this preliminary course will be selected for places on the two year part  time University of Stellenbosch/AIMSSEC ACE course for Training Subject Leaders  in Mathematics.



The photo shows a group of 40 teachers from all parts of South Africa on the first Mathematical Thinking course at Muizenberg in July 2004.






 THE ADVANCED CERTIFICATE IN EDUCATION (ACE) TO TRAIN MATHEMATICS SUBJECT LEADERS 


The ACE in Mathematics is an innovative two year professional development programme involving both residential and distance learning components and using  the Internet, Interactive TV and Cellphone technologies to link teachers on an extended campus in Limpopo, NW Province, KZN, Eastern Cape and Western Cape. A school cluster  network has been set up to empower teachers to support each other and to learn  together. Subject leaders are trained to run workshops for other teachers to  cascade and multiply the benefits to more teachers and learners. 


The course offers an NQF level 6 qualification  with an opportunity for all participants to engage in Action Research. Suitably  qualified candidates can elect to write a further  dissertation to contribute to a masters level qualification. Accredited by Stellenbosch University this is a  collaboration between The Institute for Mathematics and Science Teaching of The University of Stellenbosch (IMSTUS) and The African Institute for Mathematics Schools Enrichment Centre (AIMSSEC). This partnership is ideally  suited to conduct the programme as it brings together a combination of local  knowledge and experience of Mathematics Education and Teacher Education, and  the knowledge and experience of academics from leading universities around the  world.


 



For further information and to download application forms click on the links below.