Ministry of Education to transform teaching of mathematics
The Minister of Education and learning has pledged to collaborate with the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Ghana and other arithmetic bodies to make the instructing of the issue far more useful and beautiful.
Dr Yaw Adutwum mentioned the contributions of AIMS would be a solid foundation to empower potential and mathematics teachers to be specialist, recognize the issues and needs of the learners and answer appropriately.
The Minister mentioned this in Accra on a virtual platform to commemorate the Intercontinental Day of Arithmetic, also known as Pi Day, which falls on March 14, organised by AIMS on the theme: “Mathematics for a Better World”.
He stated the authorities had invested and prioritised the analyze of Science and Technologies and Engineering Arithmetic to persuade pupils to emphasis more on the sciences topics and generate the country’s development.
“Government thinks that if we enrich the teaching and understanding of mathematics, the country’s socio-financial enhancement will be increased to the fullest”.
He encouraged arithmetic academics to assist demystify the notion that arithmetic was challenging and stimulate the pupils to value the relevance of the subject for nationwide improvement.
“Mathematics is anything around us but sad to say there has been a misconception about the topic becoming complicated. I consider mathematics is the least difficult issue in the entire world because everything about us revolves around it”.
Dr Adutwum stated that the COVID-19 pandemic shown the worth of mathematics in daily existence, expressing some products had been employed to have an understanding of the amount of distribute of the virus and establish the two-metre social distancing.
He assured AIMS of the Ministry’s aid to stimulate pupils to respect that mathematics was not an enemy but a close friend.
He recommended all mathematicians across the world for making sure that small children obtained the needed instruments and comprehending of the topic to add to national advancement.
Dr Abdourahamane Diallo, the Head of UNESCO Accra Workplace, recommended AIMS for organising the function to make awareness about the worth of mathematics, saying experts had been guided by data to forecast the evolution of happenings.
He reported UNESCO would continue on to guidance things to do geared towards the advertising and study of the matter and urged tertiary establishments to intensify initiatives to tackle problems of stereotypes on the matter.
Dr Prince Koree Osei, President, AIMS, Ghana, addressing the topic, stated it was obvious that mathematicians developed foundational abstract ideas and types employed to address problems of nature and to check out strategies that manufactured the environment a far better place.
He reported the Institute was the to start with non-for-earnings pan-African Centre of Excellence for postgraduate schooling, study, instructor coaching and community engagement in Arithmetic and the Allied Sciences.
In a panel dialogue, some contributors and pupils of mathematics said the position of mathematics experienced aided scientists to propose to authorities the have to have to institute a lockdown in the course of the expanding level of COVID-19.
Some recommended mathematic lecturers to begin educating pupils the software of mathematical models and how it was transferred into idea for greater comprehension of the subject matter and not the other way round.
