Hamsa Venkat|Nicholas Spaull
What do we know about primary teachers’ mathematical content knowledge in South Africa? An analysis of SACMEQ 2007
University of the Witwatersrand|Stellenbosch University
consensus international mathematics teacher education literature teachers basic level mastery content knowledge required teach paper test assumption empirically analyzing south african sacmeq 2007 mathematics teacher test data tested 401 grade 6 mathematics teachers nationally representative sample primary schools items matched curriculum grade bands findings indicate 79 grade 6 mathematics teachers showed content knowledge levels grade 67 band teachers higherlevel content knowledge highly inequitably distributed