Learn about the aspects that make the Siyavula product offering relevant to educators and learners across South Africa

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3. Our books …

4. Overview
● Curriculum-aligned
● Collaboratively
authored
● Openly-licensed
● For ALL learners

5. Unique product offering
● Everything titles:
– Free to copy and
distribute
– Device agnostic
– Coherent rich-media
integration
– Assessment, practise
and diagnostic services
– Community-enabled

6. Devices
● Print ↔ Digital
● Web
– In class
– At home
– Offline version

7. Learners' own devices
Free, coherent learning experience

8. Kindle

9. Mobile and personal
● Model solutions
● Mobile reference

10. Mxit

11. Mxit
Maths: 85 000+ Physical Science: 75 000+

12. Unique product offering
● Everything titles:
– Free to copy and
distribute
– Device agnostic
– Coherent rich-media
integration
– Assessment, practise
and diagnostic services
– Community-enabled

13. PhET simulations

14. The audio-visual learner
Which contains more of the original?

15. The audio-visual learner
Which contains more of the original?

16. Unique product offering
● Everything titles:
– Free to copy and
distribute
– Device agnostic
– Coherent rich-media
integration
– Assessment, practise
and diagnostic services
– Community-enabled

17. Intelligent Practice

18. Simple questions

19. Simple questions

20. Complex answers

21. Complex answers

22. Complex answers

23. Complex answers
Chemical compounds
Chemical equations
Multiple choice
Algebraic expression
Fractions
Interval
Numeric
Polynomial
Relational
Spectroscopic
String

24. Anatomy of an Intelligent Practice question
Examples from
Mathematics Grade 11 → Finance

27. Both questions are generated from the same
template.
Templates are frameworks for questions backed
up by a computer programme allowing us to
generate many different questions automatically.
Let's analyse one in detail ….

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109 Names

30. 109 | 3 |
3 Objects

31. 109 | 3 | 4 |
4 Banks

32. 109 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
4 Verbs

33. 109 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 8
8 Intervals for 3 periods

34. 109 x 3 x 4 x 4 x 8 x 8 x 8 = 2 678 784
2 678 784 variations

35. All numbers are randomly generated!
Infinite variations

36. All three questions are generated from the same
template.
Take a quick look at the first two again ….

39. Solutions form part of the template.
Let's analyse one in detail ….

40. We store the state of the random numbers
We can reproduce the exact question a learner saw

41. We determine the correct answers
Learners enter their answer and we check

42. Provide hints
Hints can lead to losing marks on the question or not

43. Provide step-by-step solution
Step 1 for this problem

44. Provide step-by-step solution
Step 2 for this problem

45. Provide step-by-step solution
Step 3 and 4 for this problem

46. We store prequisite knowledge and skills for each step
We even time how long each step takes learners

47. Targeted feedback

48. Scope:
Mathematics and Physical Science 10 – 12
Accessible via web, mobile and Mxit
More realistic:
Not just multiple choice questions
Compound questions
Support multiple response formats
Long-term tracking and analysis:
Concept map
Time tracking
Inter-subject linkage Physics → Maths

49. Unique product offering
● Everything titles:
– Free to copy and
distribute
– Device agnostic
– Coherent rich-media
integration
– Assessment, practise
and diagnostic services
– Community-enabled

52. Community partners

53. Continuous improvement

54. A global network

55. Citizen Cyber Science

56. Options

57. Future development for 2013
CAPS-aligned Maths and Physical Sciences Grade 11
Revised Mathematics and Physical Sciences Grade 10
Life Sciences Grade 10
Mathematical Literacy Grade 10
Sprint drills
Revision sequencing
School dashboard

58. www.everythingmaths.co.za
www.everythingscience.co.za
www.siyavula.com