MATHEMATICS DEVELOPMENT
Map of Project Sites;
OUR PARTNERS IN MATH DEVELOPMENT
THE CHALLENGE
Schooling is not enabling children attending five deprived rural schools to gain foundation skills to became successful mathematics learners. By Primary 3, only 30% can do Primary 2 division. By Primary 7, 20% still cannot do a Primary 2 division. In 2018, 70% of 726 pupils failed their maths SATs. 60% of teachers do not believe all children can succeed in mathematics. Teachers (32%) lack a mathematics textbook. Teachers require a stimulating space to learn and test the fundamental ideas, skills, and methods for teaching mathematics for depth. Only 16% aspire to remain teachers in two years.
OUR THEORIES OF CHANGE & INNOVATIONS
OUR IMPACT/PROJECTS;
- The Happy Math Hub- Teachers of targeted schools will have access to a mathematics mastery hub and community of practice increasing their skills and confidence for more effective teaching of mathematics for mastery, in a resource-limited context. Lower primary girls and boys who are affected by poverty, disabilities, and violence, will reduce mathematics anxiety, and have equal opportunities to make quantitative connections whenever life requires. We will roof, furnish, and resource a mathematics hub. Mentor teachers in ideas of coherence, procedural and conceptual fluency, variation, representation and mathematical thinking. Support locally made mathematics manipulatives, a teachers’ self-help group, and mathematical competitions and games (e.g. chess).
- SIGMA– ( Sculling Innovations for Grooming Math Aces) innovates the identification of 30 exceptionally mathematically gifted primary school students from Busoga, one of Uganda’s poorest regions. SIGMA supports them in applying their mathematics gifts through a differentiated curriculum, prescriptive instruction, skilled mentoring, and gamification. Kabukye Trust and eminent collaborating mathematicians will document evidence through a non-randomized pilot
