The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences Schools Enrichment Centre (AIMSSEC) is a not-for-profit organisation that aims at empowering teachers from disadvantaged rural and township communities in South Africa and other parts of Africa.  A team of local, continental and international professional mathematics educators join together and collaborate with teachers and leaders at either residential (face-to-face) courses or during online courses. The team contributes toward mathematics teachers and leaders reaching their potentiality in mathematics education on the continent.

AIMSSEC offers professional development courses for anyone passionate about the teaching and learning of mathematics in South Africa. For mathematics teachers and leaders, we tap into unexplored mathematics teaching skills, enhancing teachers' subject content, pedagogical content and technological content knowledge. Courses are delivered as either residentials run during the January and June South African school holidays followed by distance learning or as online courses which last three/six months, depending on the course. In South Africa, courses are fully funded for teachers and leaders of mathematics. We are flexible in delivering teacher training outside of South Africa.

AIMSSEC also teaches computational thinking to historically marginalised learners from the Cape Flats. Learners experience their first taste of algorithmic thinking opening a world to inventions. Our current focus is on piloting algorithms for African digital designs taking learners of eight schools from sewing household patterns to constructing algorithms for sewing machines to do the work. We also partner high school, and primary school girls to teach and mentor each other until they reach high school.