Chapter 1: Is Africa ready for the 4IR? Fidele Ukobizaba, Ezekiel Nsabayezu and Alphonse Uworwabayeho.- Chapter 2: Can the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) resolve why the teaching of mathematics in the current paradigm continues to be decontextualised and ineffective; Kakoma Luneta.- Chapter 3: Alignment and Gaps of the Competency-Based Mathematics Curriculum and the Fourth Industrial Revolution; Penina Kamina and Mary A. Ochieng.- Chapter 4: Mathematics educators’ readiness for online education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution - A case of two selected Universities in Ethiopia; Tola Bekene Bedada; France Machaba; and Mekdes Minjar Manea.- Chapter 5: Mathematics Education and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR): Are the High School Mathematics Teachers Ready in Nigeria?; Musa Adekunle Ayanwale, Mdutshekelwa Ndlovu & Jumoke Iyabode Oladele.- Chapter 6: Revamping the Zimbabwean mathematics curriculum to align it with the demands of fourth industrial revolution; Gladys Suzuma, Conilius Changwiza, and Brantina Chirinda.- Chapter 7: Redefining Distance Learning for the African Context: Lessons Learnt from Egyptian Educators; Mariam Makramalla.- Chapter 8: Implementing Assessment as Learning with Computer Adaptive Learning for Enhancing STEM Education in Africa: A Fourth Industrial Revolution Possibility; Jumoke I. Oladele, Mdutshekelwa Ndlovu and Musa A. Ayanwale.- Chapter 9: Teaching and Learning Mathematics Using Technology in Basic Education Schools in Rwanda; Emmanuel Iyamuremye, Joseph Njiku, Jean Francois Maniraho, Irenee Ndayambaje, and Charles Magoba Muwonge.- Chapter 10: Exploring the challenges concerning the teaching and learning mathematics during the fourth industrial revolution in the selected Rwandan secondary schools; Aloys Iyamuremye, Jean de Dieu Kwitonda, Ezechiel Nsabayezu and Jean Claude Habimana.- Chapter 11: An experimental approach for learning mathematical functions in secondary school using GeoGebra software in Niger republic;Abdoul Massalabi NOUHOU and Abdou Moumouni.- Chapter 12: Instances of instrumental orchestration when a teacher integrates GeoGebra in solving linear inequalities in the context of linear and quadratic functions; Charles Smith.- Chapter 13: Fault lines in designing learning activities for practising mathematics teachers: An autoethnographic account; Cyril Julie.- Chapter 14: Factors Influencing Preservice Teachers’ Adoption of Interactive Social Media Platforms in Mathematics Teacher Education in Malawi; Fraser Gobede, Mercy Kazima and Justina Longwe.- Chapter 15: The Use of Animal Metaphors to Reveal Self-perceptions of Grade Three Namibian Learners Who Experienced Mathematics Learning Difficulties During the COVID-19 Pandemic Cloneria Nyambali Jatilen and Shemunyenge Taleiko Hamukwaya.- Chapter 16: Using 4IR to enhance learners’ self-regulated skills to solve circle geometry problems; Puleng Motseki.- Chapter 17: Emerging realities from COVID-19 and the 4IR: mathematics education lecturers’ autoethnographic experiences; Hlamulo Mbhiza, Zingiswa Jojo, Masilo Motshidisi and France Machaba.- Chapter 18: WhatsApp as a social media to enhance dialogic interactions in mathematics: Grade 9 teachers and learners’ voices; Tšhegofatšo Makgakga.

This book is about mathematics teaching and learning in Africa during the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has evolved to utilize new technologies in the teaching and learning of Mathematics. It is characterized by the fusion of the biological, physical and digital worlds and embodies a new era of innovation in mathematics education, leading to the rapid emergence of new technologies for mathematics teaching and learning. Because 4IR in mathematics education is happening differently in various parts of Africa, the authors of the various chapters in this volume have positioned their work in their respective local contexts. The chapters address a wide variety of interests, concerns, and implications regarding 4IR and Mathematics Education in Africa. Additionally, a number of chapters address teaching mathematics in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic that has gripped the world. Other chapters discuss the implications of inequalities in Africa that effect mathematics education during 4IR. Chapters also incorporate arguments, observations, and suggestions to, improve and transform the teaching and learning of mathematics in Africa during the 4IR.

This book highlights a new era of innovation in mathematics education in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, leading to the rapid emergence of new technologies in mathematics teaching and learning. It is a valuable resource for graduate students, people with research interests in the fourth industrial revolution and mathematics educators at any level, including all mathematics teachers; mathematics education curriculum designers and policymakers.

Addresses the big questions related to mathematics education in Africa Offers insight into the readiness of mathematics education in Africa for 4IR Presents practical case studies on the teaching and learning of mathematics in Africa

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