MIP2602/101/0/2024

Tutorial Letter 101/0/2024

Mathematics for Intermediate Phase

Teachers IV
MIP2602

Year Module

Department of Mathematics Education

This tutorial letter contains important information about your module.

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1 INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................... 4
2 PURPOSE AND OUTCOMES ..................................................................................................... 5
2.1 Purpose........................................................................................................................................ 5
2.2 Outcomes..................................................................................................................................... 5
3 CURRICULUM TRANSFORMATION .......................................................................................... 5
4 LECTURER(S) AND CONTACT DETAILS .................................................................................. 6
4.1 Lecturer(s).................................................................................................................................... 6
4.2 Department .................................................................................................................................. 6
4.3 University ..................................................................................................................................... 6
5 RESOURCES .............................................................................................................................. 6
5.1 Prescribed book(s) ....................................................................................................................... 6
5.2 Recommended book(s) ................................................................................................................ 6
5.3 Electronic reserves (e-reserves) .................................................................................................... 6
6 STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES ............................................................................................... 7
6.1 The Unisa First-Year Experience Programme .............................................................................. 8
7 STUDY PLAN .............................................................................................................................. 9
8 PRACTICAL WORK .................................................................................................................... 9
9 ASSESSMENT ............................................................................................................................ 9
9.1 Assessment criteria ...................................................................................................................... 9
9.2 Assessment plan .......................................................................................................................... 9
9.3 Assessment due dates ................................................................................................................10
9.4 Submission of assessments ........................................................................................................10
9.4.1 Types of assignments and descriptions .........................................................................................11
9.5 The assessments ........................................................................................................................12
9.6 Other assessment methods.........................................................................................................12
9.7 The examination..........................................................................................................................12
9.7.1 Invigilation/proctoring ..................................................................................................................12
10 ACADEMIC DISHONESTY .........................................................................................................13
10.1 Plagiarism ...................................................................................................................................13
10.2 Cheating......................................................................................................................................13
11 STUDENTS LIVING WITH DISABILITIES ..................................................................................14
12 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS.........................................................................................14
13 SOURCES CONSULTED ...........................................................................................................14

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14 IN CLOSING ............................................................................................................................... 14
15 ADDENDUM ............................................................................................................................... 14

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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 involves 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

• how to apply their discipline-specific knowledges competently, ethically and creatively

to solve real-life problems

• an awareness of their own learning and developmental needs and future potential

MIP2602 is a blended module, 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.

You are encouraged to log into the module site on myUnisa regularly (that is, at least twice per
week).

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Because this is a blended module, you will need to use myUnisa to study and complete the learning
activities for this module. Visit the website for MIP2602 on myUnisa frequently. The website for
your module is MIP2602-24-Y.

We wish you every success with your studies!

2 PURPOSE AND OUTCOMES

2.1 Purpose

Students who have completed this module successfully, will be able to

• develop a deeper understanding of the concepts of probability and data handling in statistics

• collect, represent, analyse, interpret and report such data

• understand types of events and how to represent them

• teach data handling and probability in the Mathematics Intermediate Phase

2.2 Outcomes

For this module, you will have to master several outcomes:

• Specific outcome 1: Develop knowledge and understanding of data handling concepts in

the Intermediate Phase.

• Specific outcome 2: Develop knowledge and understanding of probability concepts in the

Intermediate Phase.

• Specific outcome 3: Engage in the process of data collection and analysing in data
handling.

• Specific outcome 4: Analyse the applications of probability in real-world situations.

• Specific outcome 5: Integrate technology in the teaching and learning of statistics and
probability concepts.

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.

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 4 LECTURER(S) AND CONTACT DETAILS
4.1 Lecturer(s)

I am Dr EG Makwakwa and I am your primary lecturer for this module.

Department: Mathematics Education

Telephone: 012 429 4575

4.2 Department

You can contact the Department of Mathematics Education at:

Telephone: 012 429 4784/4128

E-mail: [email protected]

4.3 University

Contact addresses of the various administrative departments appear on the Unisa website:
http://www.unisa.ac.za/sites/corporate/default/Contact-us/Student-enquiries.

Please include the student number in all correspondence.

5 RESOURCES
5.1 Prescribed book(s)

There is no prescribed book for this module.

5.2 Recommended book(s)

• Creswell, JW & Creswell, JD. 2017. Research design – qualitative, quantitative and mixed
methods approaches (5th ed).

• Doane, D, & Seward, L. 2011. Applied statistics in business and economics (3rd ed).

• Wegner, T. 2016. Applied business statistics: methods and Excel-based applications (4th
ed).

Recommended books can be requested online, via the library catalogue.

5.3 Electronic reserves (e-reserves)

E-reserves can be downloaded from the library webpage Find e-reserves. More
information is available at: http://oasis.unisa.ac.za/search/r

5.4 Library services and resources

The Unisa Library offers a range of information services and resources. The library has created
numerous library guides, available at http://libguides.unisa.ac.za

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Recommended guides:

• For brief information on the library, go to https://www.unisa.ac.za/library/libatglance

• For more detailed library information, go
to http://www.unisa.ac.za/sites/corporate/default/Library
• Frequently Asked Questions,
visit https://www.unisa.ac.za/sites/corporate/default/Library/Frequently-Asked-Questions
• For research support and services such as the Personal Librarian service and the
Information Search Librarian's Literature
Search Request (on your research topic) service,
visit http://www.unisa.ac.za/sites/corporate/default/Library/Library-services/Research-support.
• For library training for undergraduate
students, visit https://www.unisa.ac.za/sites/corporate/default/Library/Library-
services/Training
• Lending Services https://www.unisa.ac.za/sites/corporate/default/Library/Library-
services/Lending-services
• Services for Postgraduate students
- https://www.unisa.ac.za/sites/corporate/default/Library/Services-for-Postgraduates
• Support and Services for students with disabilities
- https://www.unisa.ac.za/sites/corporate/default/Library/Services-for-students-with-
special-needs
• Library Technology Support -https://libguides.unisa.ac.za/techsupport
• Finding and using library resources and tools -http://libguides.unisa.ac.za/Research_skills
• A–Z list of library databases – https://libguides.unisa.ac.za/az.php

Important contact information:

• Technical problems encountered in accessing library online services: [email protected]
• General library-related queries: [email protected]
• Queries related to library fines and payments: [email protected]
• Interlibrary loan service for postgraduate students: [email protected]
• Literature Search Service: [email protected]
• Social media channels: Facebook: UnisaLibrary and Twitter: @UnisaLibrary

6 STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES

The Study @ Unisa brochure is available on myUnisa: www.unisa.ac.za/brochures/studies

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:

• Toll-free landline: 0800 00 1870 (Select option 07 for myModules)

• E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]

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
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 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.

6.1 The Unisa First-Year Experience Programme

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]

FYE1500
Post
myUnisa; Study
Registration
Referrals to Skills; Academic &
Orientation Digital Literacies;
other support
services i.e. etc
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
Year

PERIOD Study guide

Feb- Apr Learning Unit 1 pages 5 - 64

Apr - Jun Learning Unit 1 pages 65-90 &

Learning Unit 4 pages 121-131

Jun - Jul Learning Unit 2 pages 93-109 &

Learning Unit 3 pages 111-120

July - Sept Learning Unit 1- 4 pages 5-140

8 PRACTICAL WORK
There is no practical work for this module. However, this module will assist you in the planning of
your relevant teaching practice lessons on Mathematics in the Intermediate Phase.

9 ASSESSMENT
9.1 Assessment criteria

When assessing your assignments, we will focus on the following:

• your understanding of the question

• your ability to reason and accurately perform meaningful computations

• relevance in answering the question

• your ability to give examples that enable learners to like and understand data handling and
probability concepts

• mistakes in calculation or reasoning, or any mathematical error, for which marks will be
deducted

9.2 Assessment plan

• To complete this module, you will be required to submit four assessments.

• All information about when and where to submit your assessments will be made available
to you via the myModules site for your module.

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 • Due dates for assessments, as well as the actual assessments are available on the
myModules site for this module.
• To gain admission to the examination, you will be required to submit four mandatory
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.

9.3 Assessment due dates

• There are no assignment due dates included in this tutorial letter.

• 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.

9.4 Submission of assessments

• Unisa, as a comprehensive open distance e-learning institution (CODeL), is moving towards

becoming an online institution. You will therefore see that all your study material,
assessments and engagements with your lecturer and fellow students will take place online.
We use myUnisa as our virtual campus.

• 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.

• The university undertakes to communicate clearly and as frequently as is necessary to

ensure that you obtain the greatest benefit from the use of the myModules learning
management system. Please access the announcements on your myModules site
regularly, as this is where your lecturer will post important information to be shared with you.

• 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.

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• 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.

• 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.

9.4.1 Types of assignments and descriptions

All assignments are defined as either optional, mandatory, compulsory, or elective.

• 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.

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 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.

II. Mandatory assignments

a. contribute to the year mark.
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.

IV. Optional assignments – You are encouraged as a student to do optional assignment so

that it may benefit your learning.

9.5 The assessments

As indicated in section 9.2, you need to complete four assessments 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.

9.6 Other assessment methods

As indicated in section 9.2, you need to complete four assignments for this module.

9.7 The examination

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:

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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.

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.

The Invigilator “mobile application-based service does verification” of the identity of an

assessment participant. The Invigilator Mobile Application detects student dishonesty-by-proxy and
ensures that the assessment participant is the registered student. This invigilation tool requires
students to download the app from their Play Store (Google, Huawei and Apple) on their mobile
devices (camera enabled) prior to their assessment.

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.

• All MCQs/quizzes in this module will be proctored.

• All written/essay typed assignments will be submitted through Turnitin.

10 ACADEMIC DISHONESTY
10.1 Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the act of taking the words, ideas and thoughts of others and presenting them as your
own. It is a form of theft. Plagiarism includes the following forms of academic dishonesty:

• 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:

• Completing assessments on behalf of another student, copying the work of another

student during an assessment, or allowing another student to copy your work.

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 • Using social media (e.g. WhatsApp, Telegram) or other platforms to disseminate
assessment information.
• Submitting corrupt or irrelevant files as per examination guidelines
• Buying completed answers from so-called “tutors” or internet sites (contract cheating).
10.3 For more information about plagiarism, follow the link below:
https://www.unisa.ac.za/sites/myunisa/default/Study-@-Unisa/Student-values-and-rules

11 STUDENTS LIVING WITH DISABILITIES

The Advocacy and Resource Centre for Students with Disabilities (ARCSWiD) provides an
opportunity for staff to interact with first-time and returning students with disabilities.
If you are a student with a disability and would like additional support or need additional time for
assessments, you are invited to contact Dr EG Makwakwa (e-mail address:
[email protected]) to discuss the assistance that you need.

12 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

- Can I hand write the assignment and scan it as a pdf document. No, students are expected
to submit typed responses for utilisation of the Turnitin software.

13 SOURCES CONSULTED
No sources were consulted.

14 IN CLOSING
I wish you every success with your studies.

15 ADDENDUM
None

©
Unisa 2024

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