An investigation into the use of a computer algebra system for the teaching of introductory school calculus
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Date
1995
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
Mathematics education in South Africa is in a state of crisis.
One manifestation of this crisis is that students in the former
Department of Education and Training (DET), which catered for
blacks in the former Apartheid government, fail dismally in the
final matriculation examinations as compared to students in other
departments. Whilst the process of amalgamating the different
departments of education in the new dispensation is underway,
this state of affairs remains. The poor matriculation results
must be seen in the socio-historical context of Apartheid
education which was introduced when the National Party assumed
power in I-948. The Bantu Education Act of l-953 was promulgated,
as part of the overall policy of apartheid, to ensure that blacks
received a separate and inferior education. Verwoerd himself,
the infamous architect of Apartheid, makes this crystal clear
when he states that through Bantu Education:
The Bantu must be guided to serve his own community in all
its respects. There is no place for him in the European
community above the leve1 of certain forms of labour.
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Magister Philosophiae - MPhil
Keywords
Mathematics education, Apartheid government, Calculus, Differential calculus, South Africa