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Direct linkLindow, Megan – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
This article reports on new programs that focus on training skilled scientists and mathematicians who will help solve Africa's myriad problems. The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, in Cape Town, South Africa, offers one of the first working examples of a growing effort to develop a cadre of highly trained, practically minded scientists…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Foreign Countries, Brain Drain, Scientists
Download full textOesterle, Susan, Ed.; Allan, Darien, Ed.; Liljedahl, Peter, Ed. – Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group, 2013
This submission contains the Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG), held at Laval University in Québec City, Québec. The CMESG is a group of mathematicians and mathematics educators who meet annually to discuss mathematics education issues at all levels of learning. The aims of the Study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conference Papers, Mathematics Education, Ethics
Leech, Gordon; Murphy, Paud – Teaching at a Distance, 1977
The way in which one correspondence course was produced for use in Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland is described. It has implications for production of other correspondence materials as well as for the organization of writing correspondence courses anywhere. (LBH)
Descriptors: Correspondence Study, Course Organization, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedWilliams, Grace A. Alele – Arithmetic Teacher, 1976
In a series of projects centered in different areas of Africa, mathematicians from England and the United States joined African educators in developing and testing a mathematics curriculum designed to teach the basic concepts which are important and useful in all countries. (SD)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Elementary School Mathematics
Eshiwani, George S. – 1983
This study concerns the goals of school mathematics in the curricula of African schools. Concerns about the state of mathematics education are noted: not only is achievement declining, but also there has been (1) a student population explosion, so that goals formulated two decades ago are no longer applicable, and (2) rapid growth of informatics…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Research
