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Performance of many learners in Mathematics has continued to decline. For learners with Special Educational Needs (SEN), their academic performance is far below their non disabled peers. Further comparison tests on performance in Mathematics among different SEN learners indicate that those with...

Mathematical terminologies are considered to be an important factor in the teaching and learning of mathematics. This study was an exploratory of teachers’ use of mathematical terminology in four secondary schools in Mufulira district. It was not clear how mathematics teachers used mathematical...

Throughout the study of physics, mathematical related terms, facts, figures and concepts are learned. Although the relationship between mathematics and physics is evident and interwoven, no studies of Zambian origin have focused on how mathematical concepts should be understood and used by...

This study investigated factors inspiring and motivating student teachers' choice of mathematics as their teaching subject. The research design used was cross sectional survey of mathematics student teachers in colleges of Education in Zambia. The target population was all student teachers...

This study investigated secondary school pupils’ errors and misconceptions in algebra among grade 11 pupils in two selected schools in Petauke district in Eastern Province of Zambia, with a view to exposing the nature and origin of these errors and make suggestions for classroom teaching. The...

The study was conducted in Petauke district, which lies in the Eastern Province of Zambia. The study investigated teachers’ questioning practices in mathematics at Grade 11 level in four selected secondary schools and used the findings to inform mathematics teachers. Although questioning is a...

In this paper we will be considering two measures on sorae measure space (X, A). For general p > o we can consider the tiro norms |jf|[p,y and }|fj|p,v. We are interested in conditions on y and v that make ||f||p, y - | [f | |p,v for all f in sorae class of functions, i.e. when there exist...

Numerical anxiety was investigated in the light of poor mathematics achievement and negative attitudes held by learners towards mathematics. Two instruments, a two dimensional scale measuring general anxiety and numerical anxiety, and a mathematics achievement test comprising items specific to a...