Brombacher & Assoc

about brombacher

Brombacher and Associates is an education support company that specialises in the areas of Mathematics and Mathematical Literacy from primary school to college level.

We work in three key areas:

·Training: We support and train teachers and college lecturers to teach Mathematics and Mathematical Literacy.

·Materials development: We develop teaching support materials and curriculum to meet the requirements of our clients and their setting.

·Research: We conduct research for our clients on interventions and/or the state of teaching/learning in contexts and make recommendations on improvements.

Our clients include: departments of education (both national and provincial); non-government organisations (NGOs); universities; schools and colleges and education foundations to name a few.
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Numeracy Handbook for Foundation Phase Teachers
Numeracy book cover (190 x 269)
The Department of Basic Education has recently made available via the internet a handbook entitled: Numeracy Handbook for Foundation Phase Teachers Grades R-3.

The Handbook can be downloaded by clicking here (click here) or here (click here).

The Handbook was commissioned by the Department of Basic Education and written by Aarnout Brombacher with support from a number of colleagues (see below).



The following chapters are included in the Handbook:

Unit 1: Introducing the handbook
Unit 2: Developing numeracy what do we know?
Unit 3: Developing a strong sense of number
Unit 4: The role of problem solving
Unit 5: Numbers, Operations and Relationships
Unit 6: Patterns
Unit 7: Space and Shape (Geometry)
Unit 8: Measurement
Unit 9: Data Handling
Unit 10: Organising the Numeracy Classroom

The handbook has been developed by:

Aarnout Brombacher

with kind assistance from:

Amanda Le Roux
Hanlie Murray
Piet Human
Erna Lampen
Penny Smith
Cally Kühne
Anna-Paula Lombard
Alwyn Olivier
Simangaliso Twala
Manare Setati
Faaiz Gierdien
Di Donaldson
Lorna Siers
and
All of the children whose work inspires us
 
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