Focus Area
The Zenex Foundation has one core focus area through which it carries out work:
Primary Teacher Education Project
A multi-year project on Initial Teacher Education (ITE) aimed at improving performance in Mathematics and literacy at primary level through teacher graduates with competence to work with children to develop their language/literacy and Mathematical competencies at the...
Mathematics in African Languages Research Project
The research was undertaken to better understand how children learn mathematics in African languages. The project also developed and tested teaching and learning resources for Foundation Phase mathematics in isiXhosa that was informed by the research. Name of...
Laying firm foundations: Getting reading right
This project focused on understanding the underlying causes of poor performance in Foundation Phase numeracy and literacy. The research methodology involved analysing the various large national datasets that are available. The Zenex Foundation funded research...