1. Schools were advised of the management, conduct and administration of the Annual National Assessments (ANA) through Assessment Management Minute 0017/2013.
2. This minute serves to confirm that learners in the Foundation Phase (Grades 1 to 3) may be allowed to use teaching aids as prescribed in the Mathematics Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS).
3. The teaching aids range from the learners’ counters, 100 charts, number lines to any other aids that learners are normally permitted to use to solve a problem.
4. Please bring the content of this minute to the attention of all Foundation Phase teachers and invigilators concerned.


SIGNED: BK SCHREUDER
DEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL: CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT MANAGEMENT
DATE: 2013:00:00