This project looks at the issue of how to harness mobile phones for learning mathematics in formal and informal learning environments with the objective of finding a sustainable, scalable, replicable, and affordable service for learners.

1. Mobile Learning
for Mathematics
in formal /informal education in
South Africa/Finland
Education for All | Sustainability | Scalability | Accessibility | Affordability
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2. Achievements
to date
Usage statistics at the end Sept 2011
• 4 provinces, 172 schools, appr 700 teachers, more than15 000 Grade 10 learners (potential group
appr. 25 000 learners). NOTE: Free State joined in Aug- Sept and Eastern Cape widen the
number of schools in May
• Half a million (491,958) attempts at maths tests and exercises
• 468,496 maths tests and exercises completed by 11,062 Grade 10s (600,546 views and posts).
23,462 maths tests and exercises completed by 743 Grade 11s (who continued to use Momaths
Grade 10). (we do not have yet Grade 11 content)
Impact for learners
• Very positive feedback from learners and teachers
• 82% of use was outside of school time
• Continued use during weekends, holidays and strike
• Continued use over one full year (often, despite non-use by teachers)
• Interest for mathemathics has raised
• Learners awarenes of own maths skills have raised
• Preliminary analysis (Feb – June 2010) shows impact on learner results – 14 % better maths
results fro those who were using the service
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3. Momaths Timeline
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4
Oct 2008 Feb 2009 Jan 2010 Jan 2011 Jan 2012
Governmen South African South Africa South African Grade 10 and 11
t request pilot service scales up provincial Potential target
South ~300 learners ~4000 learners implementation group 50 000
~25 000 learners learners.
African
6 schools , 3 30 schools, 3
President’s provinces: provinces: 172 schools, 4
office  North West  North West provinces:
request a  Western Cape  Eastern Cape  North West
project  Mpumalanga  Western Cape  Eastern Cape
exploring  Western Cape
use of  Free State
mobile
technologies Sep 2010 Jan 2011
to support Finnish pilot Finnish pilot
formal ~60 learners ~300 learners
education in (grade 10) (grade 10)
South Africa
Maths for first year
of secondary
schools
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April 2009 
August 2009 
March 2010 
June 2010 
Dec 2010 
June 2011 Dec 2011
Evaluation
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4. Momaths Timeline
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4
Achievements
Proof of  Proof of  Proof of  Proof of
concept affordability sustainability
scalability
Evidence for uptake  Proof of impact for  Proof of 
(learners, teachers) learners’ competencies
replicability
Localization and knowledge transfer
Training for teachers,
Teacher Teacher
PDOE and Provincial
training training
Admin and local partners
Service handover
to South Africa
(SchoolNet,
Mindset)
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5. Momaths Timeline
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4
Partners
Presidency
DBE, DST, DOC PDOE
MML
MXit
Operators (CellC, MTN)
SAFIPA
COL
DST
Opera
UNICEF
ESKOM?
VODACOM?
PLUS local /global consultants, experts, university people and developers e.g. NBA, MERAKA
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6. 2012
Content for Grade 11 in South Africa, content partly created by Finnish teachers
Fine-tuned scalability with cloud computing
Fine-tuned modern back end system for mobile learning
Cascading to new countries together with COL (evidence for replicability) – Tanzania, Nigeria,
Kenya
Child safety on internet –info sharing via the service
New partners: COL, UNICEF?, Eskom?, Vodacom?, ChildFund USA?
Further development of sustainability model
?
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7. Sustainability
possibilities
CSI model – for formal education for free
Non-profitable/profirable business model
Corporate offering
CSI model/Busines model for informal learning – learner’s are paying the data delivery
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8. www.momaths.org
Many thanks to the Department of Education for their ongoing support
of the Momaths project
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