Mip1501 Tut
Mip1501 Tut
MIP1501
Year Module
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Please register on myUnisa, activate your myLife e-mail account and
make sure that you have regular access to the myUnisa module
website, MIP1501, as well as your group website.
Note: This is a fully online module. It is, therefore, only available on myUnisa.
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CONTENTS
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1 INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................4
2 MODULE OVERVIEW ..................................................................................................................5
2.1 Purpose ........................................................................................................................................5
2.2 Outcomes .....................................................................................................................................5
3 CURRICULUM TRANSFORMATION ........................................................................................... 6
4 LECTURER(S) AND CONTACT DETAILS................................................................................... 6
4.1 Lecturer(s) ....................................................................................................................................6
4.2 Department ...................................................................................................................................6
4.3 University ......................................................................................................................................7
5 RESOURCES ...............................................................................................................................7
5.1 Prescribed book(s) ........................................................................................................................7
5.2 Recommended book(s) .................................................................................................................7
5.3 Electronic reserves (e-reserves) ..................................................................................................... 7
6 STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES ................................................................................................ 8
6.1 First-Year Experience Programme ................................................................................................ 9
7. STUDY PLAN ............................................................................................................................. 10
8 HOW TO STUDY ONLINE .......................................................................................................... 10
8.1 What does it mean to study fully online? ..................................................................................... 10
9. ASSESSMENT ........................................................................................................................... 10
9.1 Assessment criteria..................................................................................................................... 10
9.2 Assessment plan ........................................................................................................................ 10
9.3 Assessment due dates ................................................................................................................ 11
9.4 Submission of assessments........................................................................................................ 11
9.4.1 Types of assignments and descriptions ........................................................................................ 12
9.5 The assessments ........................................................................................................................ 13
9.6 Other assessment methods ........................................................................................................ 13
9.7 The examination ......................................................................................................................... 13
9.7.1 Invigilation/proctoring .................................................................................................................. 13
10. ACADEMIC DISHONESTY ........................................................................................................ 14
10.1 Plagiarism ................................................................................................................................... 14
10.2 Cheating ..................................................................................................................................... 14
10.3 For more information about plagiarism, follow the link below: ..................................................... 15
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1 INTRODUCTION
Dear Student
Unisa is a comprehensive open distance e-learning (CODeL) higher education institution. The
comprehensiveness of our curricula encapsulates a range of offerings, from strictly vocational
to strictly academic certificates, diplomas, and degrees. Unisa's "openness" and its distance
eLearning character result in many students registering at Unisa who may not have had an
opportunity to enrol in higher education. Our CODeL character implies that our programmes
are carefully planned and structured to ensure success for students ranging from the under-
prepared but with potential to the sufficiently prepared.
Teaching and learning in a CODeL context involve multiple modes of delivery ranging from
blended learning to fully online. As a default position, all post graduate programmes are offered
fully online with no printed study materials, while undergraduate programmes are offered in a
blended mode of delivery where printed study materials are augmented with online teaching
and learning via the learner management system – myUnisa. In some instances,
undergraduate programmes are offered fully online as well.
Furthermore, our programmes are aligned with the vision, mission, and values of the University.
Unisa's commitment to serve humanity and shape futures combined with a clear appreciation
of our location on the African continent, Unisa's graduates have distinctive graduate qualities
which include:
• independent, resilient, responsible, and caring citizens who are able to fulfil and serve
in multiple roles in their immediate and future local, national and global communities
• having a critical understanding of their location on the African continent with its
histories, challenges, and potential in relation to globally diverse contexts
• the ability to critically analyse and evaluate the credibility and usefulness of information
and data from multiple sources in a globalised world with its ever-increasing
information and data flows and competing worldviews
• an awareness of their own learning and developmental needs and future potential
Whether a module is offered either as blended (meaning that we use a combination of printed
and online material to engage with you) or online (all information is available via the internet),
we use myUnisa as our virtual campus. This is an online system that is used to administer,
document and deliver educational material to you and support engagement with you. Look out
for information from your lecturer as well as other Unisa platforms to determine how to access
the virtual myUnisa module site. Information on the tools that will be available to engage with
the lecturer and fellow students to support your learning will also be communicated via various
platforms.
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You are encouraged to log into the module site on myUnisa regularly (that is, at least twice per
week), MIP1501.
Because this is a fully online module, you will need to use myUnisa to study and complete the
learning activities for this module. Visit the website for [MIP1501] on myUnisa frequently. The
website for your module is [the module website code written out in full, e.g., MIP1501.
2 MODULE OVERVIEW
2.1 Purpose
The purpose of this module is to familiarise the student with methodological issues on how to
teach Mathematics as proposed by the Intermediate Phase (IP) Curriculum and Assessment
Policy Statement (CAPS). The students who qualify in this module will have knowledge, skills and
attitudes that will enable them to teach Mathematics in the Intermediate Phase and be able to
facilitate the building of number concepts in the Intermediate Phase that can serve as the
foundation for more advanced operations and problem solving. This module will develop and
enhance the students’ teaching ability and prepare them to fulfil their roles as teachers in the
varying contexts of South African classrooms be able to integrate and practice their foundational
and reflexive competences that prepare them to facilitate the teaching and learning of
Mathematics on a beginner teachers’ level.
2.2 Outcomes
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• The student demonstrates the application of proportional
reasoning processes involving numbers and operations.
• The student illustrates critical problem-solving skills when dealing
with high-order tasks.
• The student illustrates the skill to create scenarios where
numbers and operations will be used to analyse real-world
situations.
• The student displays an understanding of a variety of models
to interpret fractions.
• The student can illustrate an understanding of fraction
Demonstrate an understanding of common algorithms.
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fractions. relationship between common fractions, decimal fractions and
percentages.
• The student demonstrates the ability to do calculations which
include ratio and proportion.
Develop proportional reasoning in a variety • The student demonstrates the ability to operate in a range of
of contexts. contexts relating to ratio and rate.
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• The student demonstrates a sound understanding of the
application of proportional reasoning in real-world contexts.
Integrate technology in the teaching and • The student demonstrates the ability to use a variety of
learning of numbers and operation technological tools, such as computers, tablets and virtual
concepts. manipulative software, to extend the knowledge of numbers and
operations in the Intermediate Phase.
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• The student demonstrates the ability to use software such as
Microsoft Math Add-In, Excel and GeoGebra.
• The student shows an understanding of how calculators
contribute to the knowledge of numbers and operations; for
example, he/she demonstrates the numeric relationship using the
calculator as a tool.
• The student demonstrates the ability to gather and select digital
content appropriate to achieving an in-depth understanding of
numbers and operations.
3 CURRICULUM TRANSFORMATION
Unisa has implemented a transformation charter, in terms of which the university has placed curriculum
transformation high on the teaching and learning agenda. Curriculum transformation includes student-
centred scholarship, the pedagogical renewal of teaching and assessment practices, the scholarship of
teaching and learning, and the infusion of African epistemologies and philosophies. All of these will be
phased in at both programme and module levels, and as a result of this you will notice a marked change
in the teaching and learning strategy implemented by Unisa, together with the way in which the content is
conceptualised in your modules. We encourage you to embrace these changes during your studies at
Unisa in a responsive way within the framework of transformation.
4.2 Department
The following contact details are for the department under which this module is offered.
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(College of Education)
PO Box 392
Unisa
0003
4.3 University
The myUnisa learning management system is the University's online campus which will help you
communicate with your lecturers, with other students and with the administrative departments at
Unisa. However, you need to first claim your myLife e-mail login details if you do not have a myLife
e-mail address by now. To go to the myUnisa website directly, go to https://my.unisa.ac.za and
click on Claim UNISA Login at the top of the screen. You will then be prompted to provide your
student number in order to claim your initial myUnisa and myLife e-mail login details. For more
information on how to claim your myLife e-mail login details, see section 6.
Always ensure that you use your myLife e-mail account when communicating with the
University. By using your myLife e-mail account, the University has a reasonable
assurance that we are communicating with you, as your e-mail address contains your
student number, and you use your login credentials to access the account.
Contact addresses of the various administrative departments appear on the Unisa website:
http://www.unisa.ac.za/sites/corporate/default/Contact-us/Student-enquiries.
5 RESOURCES
5.1 Prescribed book(s)
Van de Walle, JA. 2013. Elementary and middle school Mathematics: teaching developmentally.
Boston: Pearson.
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E-reserves can be downloaded from the library webpage Find e-reserves. More
information is available at: http://oasis.unisa.ac.za/search/r
Recommended guides:
This brochure contains important information and guidelines for successful studies through Unisa.
If you need assistance with regard to the myModules system, you are welcome to use the
following contact details:
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You can access and view short videos on topics such as how to view your calendar, how to
access module content, how to view announcements for modules, how to submit assessment
and how to participate in forum activities via the following link: https://dtls-
qa.unisa.ac.za/course/view.php?id=32130
Registered Unisa students get a free myLife e-mail account. Important information, notices and
updates are sent exclusively to this account. Please note that it can take up to 24 hours for
your account to be activated after you have claimed it. Please do this immediately after
registering at Unisa, by following this link: [email protected]
Your myLife account is the only e-mail account recognised by Unisa for official correspondence
with the university and will remain the official primary e-mail address on record at Unisa. You
remain responsible for the management of this e-mail account.
Many students find the transition from school education to tertiary education stressful. This is also true in
the case of students enrolling at Unisa for the first time. Unisa is a dedicated open distance and e-learning
institution, and it is very different from face-to-face/contact institutions. It is a mega university, and all our
programmes are offered through either blended learning or fully online learning. It is for this reason that
we thought it necessary to offer first-time students additional/extended support to help them seamlessly
navigate the Unisa teaching and learning journey with little difficulty and few barriers. We therefore offer a
specialised student support programme to students enrolling at Unisa for the first time – this is Unisa’s
First-Year Experience (FYE) Programme, designed to provide you with prompt and helpful information
about services that the institution offers and how you can access information. The following FYE services
are currently offered:
FYE Website
Email Support
www.unisa.ac.za/FYE
[email protected]
Post FYE1500
Registration
Orientation myUnisa; Study
Skills; Academic &
Referrals to other Digital Literacies;
support services etc
i.e., Counselling;
Reading & Writing
workshops.
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To ensure that you do not miss out on important academic and support communication from
the SRU, please check your myLife inbox regularly.
7. STUDY PLAN
Use your Study @ Unisa brochure for general time management and planning skills.
All your study material, assessments and engagements with your lecturer and fellow students will
take place online. This tutorial letter is intended to offer you some guidance in this regard.
9. ASSESSMENT
9.1. Assessment criteria
• your ability to give examples that enable learners to like and understand data
• mistakes in calculation or reasoning, or any mathematical error, for which marks will
be deducted.
• To complete this module, you will be required to submit four (4) assignments.
• All information about when and where to submit your assignments will be made available
to you via the myModules site for your module.
• Due dates for assignments, as well as the actual assignments are available on the
myModules site for this module.
• To gain admission to the examination, you will be required to submit four (4) assignments.
• To gain admission to the examination, you need to obtain a year mark average of 40% for
the assignments.
• The assignment weighting for the module is 20%.
• You will receive examination information via the myModules sites. Please watch out for
announcements on how examinations for the modules for which you are registered will be
conducted.
• The examination will count 80% towards the final module mark.
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• Assignment due dates will be made available to you on the myUnisa landing page for this
module. We envisage that the due dates will be available to you upon registration.
• Please start working on your assessments as soon as you register for the module.
• Log on to the myUnisa site for this module to obtain more information on the due dates for
the submission of the assessments.
• The myUnisa virtual campus will offer students access to the myModules site, where
learning material will be available online and where assessments should be completed.
This is an online system that is used to administer, document, and deliver educational
material to students and support engagement between academics and students.
• The myUnisa platform can be accessed via https://my.unisa.ac.za. Click on the myModules
2024 button to access the online sites for the modules that you are registered for.
• When you access your myModules site for the module/s you are registered for, you will
see a welcome message posted by your lecturer. Below the welcome message you will
see the assessment shells for the assessments that you need to complete. Some
assessments may be multiple choice, some tests, others written assessments, some forum
discussions, and so on. All assessments must be completed on the assessment shells
available on the respective module platforms.
• To complete quiz assessments, please log on to the module site where you need to
complete the assessment. Click on the relevant assessment shell (Assessment 1,
Assessment 2, etc.). There will be a date on which the assessment will open for you. When
the assessment is open, access the quiz online and complete it within the time available
to you. Quiz assessment questions are not included in this tutorial letter (Tutorial Letter
101) and are only made available online. You must therefore access the quiz online and
complete it online where the quiz has been created.
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• It is not advisable to use a cell phone to complete the quiz. Please use a desktop computer,
tablet or laptop when completing the quiz. Students who use a cell phone find it difficult to
navigate the Online Assessment tool on the small screen and often struggle to navigate
between questions and successfully complete the quizzes. In addition, cell phones are
more vulnerable to dropped internet connections than other devices. If at all possible,
please do not use a cell phone for this assessment type.
• For written assessments, please note the due date by which the assessment must be
submitted. Ensure that you follow the guidelines given by your lecturer to complete the
assessment. Click on the submission button on the relevant assessment shell on
myModules. You will then be able to upload your written assessment on the myModules
site of the modules that you are registered for. Before you finalise the upload, double check
that you have selected the correct file for upload. Remember, no marks can be allocated
for incorrectly submitted assessments.
• Elective assignments
- If not submitted, the student gets no mark for this item.
- The best of the required submissions will count.
• Mandatory assignments
- If not submitted, the student gets no mark for this item.
• Compulsory assignments
- If not submitted, the result on the student’s academic record will be absent.
• Optional assignments – You are encouraged as a student to do optional assignment
so that it may benefit your learning.
I. Elective assignments
a. the student is given a choice of which assignments within an identified group to submit,
only the best result(-s), the number of which is specified in advance, will contribute
towards the year mark.
b. elective assignments must also be grouped into an elective group.
c. for the student to select which assignment to submit, the elective assignments must be
grouped together. For such an elective group, relevant information must be provided to
the student, such as how many of the assignments must be submitted and how many
of the assignment marks should be combined into the year mark.
d. The selection criteria define how marks received for assignments in an elective group
are to be combined into the year mark. Three different criteria may be used for
calculating the year mark:
• The best mark should be used, or
• If the student submits fewer than the required number of assignments per group or
no assignment in a group, a mark of 0% will be used.
• 0% is awarded to all non-submitted or unmarked assessments. A best mark is
then calculated from all items.
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b. If a student fails to submit a mandatory assignment, no mark is awarded and the year
mark is calculated accordingly. The student will therefore forfeit the marks attached to
this assignment when the final mark for the module is calculated.
III. Compulsory Assessment
a. when not submitted, the student will fail a Continuous Assessment module but will be
shown as absent from the examination in the case of other modules.
As indicated in section 9.2, you need to complete four (4) assignments for this module. There are
no assignments included in this tutorial letter. Assignments and due dates will be made
available to you on myModules for this module. We envisage that the due dates will be available
to you upon registration.
The first assignment is a multiple-choice assignment (MCQ) and must be submitted online, as
it is marked by computer. Answer all the questions in Assignment 01. The mark you achieve for
this assignment will contribute to your semester mark. Assignments 2, 3 and 4 are long, written
and intended to give you the opportunity to engage in detail with the topics covered in the module.
These assignments will be submitted online and will be covering all units as per the study guide.
The suggested solutions to all the questions in Assignments 02, 03 and 04 will be supplied in
Tutorial Letter 201.
Examination information and details on the format of the examination will be made available to
you online via the myUnisa site. Look out for information that will be shared with you by your
lecturer and e-tutors (where relevant) and for communication from the university.
9.7.1 Invigilation/proctoring
Since 2020 Unisa conducts all its assessments online. Given stringent requirements from
professional bodies and increased solicitations of Unisa’s students by third parties to unlawfully
assist them with the completion of assignments and examinations, the University is obliged to
assure its assessment integrity through the utilisation of various proctoring tools: Turnitin, Moodle
Proctoring, the Invigilator App and IRIS. These tools will authenticate the student’s identity and
flag suspicious behaviour to assure credibility of students’ responses during assessments. The
description below is for your benefit as you may encounter any or all of these in your registered
modules:
Turnitin is a plagiarism software that facilitates checks for originality in students’ submissions
against internal and external sources. Turnitin assists in identifying academic fraud and ghost
writing. Students are expected to submit typed responses for utilisation of the Turnitin software.
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The Moodle Proctoring tool is a facial recognition software that authenticates students’ identity
during their Quiz assessments. This tool requires access to a student’s mobile or laptop camera.
Students must ensure their camera is activated in their browser settings prior to their
assessments.
IRIS Invigilation software verifies the identity of a student during assessment and provides for
both manual and automated facial verification. It has the ability to record and review a student’s
assessment session. It flags suspicious behaviour by the students for review by an academic
administrator. IRIS software requires installation on students’ laptop devices that are enabled
with a webcam.
Students who are identified and flagged for suspicious dishonest behaviour arising from the
invigilation and proctoring reports are referred to the disciplinary office for formal proceeding.
Please note:
Students must refer to their module assessment information on their myModule sites to determine
which proctoring or invigilation tool will be utilised for their formative and summative assessments.
(For academics, it is mandatory to have one of the formative assessments utilise the proctoring
tool that will be utilised in the summative assessments to alleviate pressures associated with lack
of examination unreadiness by students. It is recommended that the Quiz assessment utilises the
Moodle Proctoring tool, written assessment utilises The Invigilator app or Turnitin tools, and that
CSET and CTA assessments utilise IRIS software. Please note that you can only use Turnitin for
typed responses.)
• Copying and pasting from any source without acknowledging the source.
• Not including references or deliberately inserting incorrect bibliographic information.
• Paraphrasing without acknowledging the original source of the information.
10.2 Cheating
Cheating includes, but is not limited to, the following:
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14. IN CLOSING
I wish you success in your studies.
15. ADDENDUM
No addendum
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