Early Grade Mathematics Teaching in Selected African Countries Exploring Evidence-Based Approaches

Section A: Play-based approaches in early grade mathematics teaching and learning           

Chapter 1: Developing Reflective Pre-Service Teachers through a Mathematics Intervention Programme Focused on Mental Strategy Development
Corin Mathews

Chapter 2. The Power of Noticing and Supporting Free Block Play to Enhance Grade R Mathematics Teaching and Learning
Rosemary Brien

Section B: Early grade mathematics teaching and learning in multilingual settings

Chapter 3. Integrating Culturally Contextualised Storytelling to Improve Early Grade Numeracy Outcomes in Kenya and Malawi
Shira Reisman, Che Myra Ndum, Willie Mpasuka         

Chapter 4: Supporting South African teachers in developing early grade mathematics through a home-supported Maths Storytime programme
Mellony Graven           

Chapter 5. Leveraging Translanguaging and Transliteration Practices in Isixhosa-English Multilingual Classrooms
Tabisa Booi, Wellington M. Hokonya   

SECTION C: Digital technologies in early grade mathematics teaching and learning

Chapter 6: Developing teachers’ understandings of key early additive representations in South Africa Lynn Bowie, Hamsa Venkat       

Chapter 7. Transforming Early Grade Mathematics through Africanised Online Play-Based Pedagogy: A Teacher Development Initiative in Botswana, South Africa and Zambia
Mphahlele Ramashego Shila, Mmakgabo Angelinah Selepe, Bawani Elisa Luengo, Mwambazi Chrispine Mulenga

Chapter 8. Leveraging Low-Cost Digital Technologies to Enhance Number Sense Development in Under-Resourced Public Schools in Kenya
Brenda Atieno Odhiambo

Section D: Teacher development initiatives promoting transformative early grade mathematics teaching and learning

Chapter 9. Error-informed numeracy instruction of 2-digit additive relations: Teacher experiences in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa
Ingrid Sapire, Lindiwe Tshuma, Ambang Tatianne Forkum, Utibe Henshaw           

Chapter 10. The Use of Indigenous Artefacts to Teach Geometry in Early Grade Mathematics
Angelius K. Liveve, M. Mukwambo     

Chapter 11. Designing and Teaching Mental Mathematics in South African Primary Schools: Insights from an Intervention with Grades 2 and 3 Teachers
Sameera Hansa, Shemunyenge Taleiko Hamukwaya, Anthony A Essien 

Chapter 12. Co-Created Lesson Plans And The Use Of No/Low-Cost Resources to Improve Problem-Solving in Early Grade Mathematics
Rita Yeboa, Ernest Ampadu, Millicent Narh-Kert           

Epilogue
Annie Savard

Biography

Lindiwe Tshuma is Teaching and Learning Advisor, Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. 

Anthony, A. Essien held the South African Numeracy Chair from 2022 to 2025 at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa