Mathematics education in South Africa needs help. This paper describes a project where school aged pupils could get help with their mathematics homework using MXit, South Africa's most popular instant messaging system, on their cell phones in the afternoons after school. Tutors from a local university acted as tutors using internet based workstations. Pupils used MXit on their cell phones using GPRS to connect to the internet and, eventually, to the tutors.
Reference:
Butgereit, LL. 2008. Dr Math Rocks!: Using instant messaging to help pupils with mathematics homework. IST-Africa Conference, Windhoek, Namibia, 7-9 May 2008, pp 8
Butgereit, L. (2008). Dr Math Rocks!: Using instant messaging to help pupils with mathematics homework. IST-Africa Conference. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2904
Butgereit, LL. "Dr Math Rocks!: Using instant messaging to help pupils with mathematics homework." (2008): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2904
Butgereit L, Dr Math Rocks!: Using instant messaging to help pupils with mathematics homework; IST-Africa Conference; 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2904 .
Published in: IST-Africa 2008 Conference Proceedings, Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds), IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-905824-07-6
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