Julie, CVan Schalkwyk, Gregory Peter.Faculty of Education2013-10-162024-04-122009/10/152009/10/152013-10-162024-04-122007https://hdl.handle.net/10566/10541Magister Educationis - MEdThe study was located within the project : Relevance of school mathematics Education (ROSME) of the Department of Dicactics at the University of the Western Cape. The research was undertaken in the belief that mathematics enables creative and logical reasoning about contextualised problems in the realm of the physical and social world as well as in the discipline mathematics itself. This research attempted to investigate the contextual issues that teachers have to deal with in mathematics education.enMathematicsMathematical literacyModellingApplicationsContextContentThesisUniversity of the Western Cape