Cape Town – More than 300 schools in the country are not teaching maths to Grade 12 pupils because there is no demand for it – and the Department of Basic Education wants to find out why because this will limit matriculants’ career options.
The department is implementing a plan to ensure that, within five years, every school offers maths.
In the Western Cape, 36 schools don’t have any Grade 12 pupils studying maths.
Academics have said the reason more pupils are choosing maths literacy instead of maths is that schools want to push up their matric pass rates.
Choosing maths literacy means they will not be eligible to study medicine, science and engineering, for which maths is a requirement.
Responding to parliamentary questions, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said there were 327 schools at which no Grade 12 pupils had registered to write matric maths. “This does not imply that the school did not offer mathematics, but rather there were no learners who registered for mathematics.”…
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