Prof. Poobhalan Pillay

  1. Lectured for forty years (1967-2006) at UDW/UKZN.
  2. Was appointed Associate Professor in 1982, and full Professor in 1992.
  3. Presently Emeritus Professor at UKZN.
  4. Co-authored a research monograph entitled Classification of Commutative FPF Rings with an American colleague, Carl Faith, published in Spain.
  5. Contributed numerous articles to research and teaching journals.
  6. Was External Moderator (Umalusi) for the National Mathematics Grade 12 papers (1990 – 2017).
  7. Was involved with AMESA for over 30 years. Delivered over fifty talks to teachers on various aspects of school mathematics, even primary school.
  8. Presently national academic coordinator, regional coordinator and coach for the Siyanqoba Mathematics project, a project that covers 8 training centres at six S A Universities
  9. Provide training for all prospective Siyanqoba coaches.
  10. Involved in a number of training programmes for teachers who train learners for participation in Olympiads.
  11. Have co-authored several books, amongst them Study Guides for matriculants and a first year university text.
  12. Single author of A Training Manual for South African Olympiads (SAMF 2014, 227 pages, 309 problems with complete solutions, 100 pages of lessons providing theoretical background to Olympiad problems)
  13. In the process of completing the second edition of AA Training Manual, adding almost 600 new problems with complete solutions. Suitable for SAMO Rounds 1,2 &3, SA Team Competition training and PAMO preparation.
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