Help more South African children achieve in Maths

With the end of 2017 approaching, the often daunting year-end assessments are about to commence. This year though, there does seem to be a positive shift in the attitude of many of the learners at the Green Shoots supported schools.

Normally, an assessment written on a whole year’s work could be overwhelming for leaners! The 1 394 Green Shoots learners at Mzamomhle and Jamaica Way Primary schools, the two supported by the Global Giving: Help more South African Children Achieve in Maths project, have collectively answered over a million Brain Quest Questions (weekly exercises) collectively online over the course of this year. The learners received immediate feedback on every one of these questions!! All this hard work throughout the year, supported by their teachers, means there is definitely more excitement than dread for next week’s assessment.

 “The biggest impact thus far has been the learners' interest in Maths. The overwhelming majority of learners- regardless of Mathematical ability- look forward to Maths lessons in and out of the Lab. The majority of learners take their results seriously and will ask questions about parts of the activities that they found difficult.” – Grade 4 Teacher, Mzamomhle Primary

 “Since I started doing Brain Quests I got better at doing maths and solving problems and I got at least a 6 (70 – 79%) on my report I was so proud of myself that my mother and I threw a party” - Ayanda, Grade 4 learner, Mzazmomhle Primary

“I like explaining to my friends and working out the answers. Sometimes if I miss my Green Shoots lesson I become so sad because I love it and I love Maths.” - Samuel, Grade 6 learner, Jamaica Way Primary

Thank you for your ongoing support for this project. Your donations truly make a difference to each and every one of these learners.

The Green Shoots Team

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It has been an exciting couple of months for the project “Help more South African children achieve in Maths”. Both schools, Jamaica Way Primary and Mzamomhle Primary, who are supported by this project have had a productive year thus far. The two schools combined have completed 83% of their weekly exercises for the first half of the year, as well as all their assessments.

We asked a couple of learners why they love doing their maths exercises online and the learners responded by saying that they love doing their maths online because it helps them to improve their results. The fact that learners are able to get immediate feedback after they have completed an exercise helps them to see where they have made mistakes and how to correct it.

“I like the way it teaches me and it helps me to improve my scores. The Green Shoots helps you to understand your work and to improve your marks.” – Grade 5 learner at Mzamomhle Primary

“I like the fact that when you have already submitted and you have got your score it tells you where you have gone wrong so that you can see your mistakes and try to improve your maths.” – Grade 4 learner at Jamaica Way Primary

Many learners also responded by saying that by doing their maths exercises online they now feel more confident in their maths.

“I like the brain quests the most because it is more confident than online maths.” – Grade 4 learner at Jamaica Way Primary

“It challenges your ability to do maths. It makes you feel more confident in doing maths. It makes you love maths. The more you do it the better you become.” – Grade 6 learner at Mzamomhle Primary

Thank you for your donations, it is truly making a difference in every single one of the 1, 385 learners’ lives. Your donations are instrumental in helping them achieve their dreams.