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Mathematics
Makurdi, Nov. 3, 2016 (NAN) The Benue Government would collaborate with the National Mathematical Centre (NMC) to establish a model centre in Makurdi, Gov. Samuel Ortom said on
Thursday.
The governor said this when the Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the
Centre, Prof. Stephen Onah, paid him a courtesy visit in Makurdi.
He said the situation became necessary following the increasing number of unsuccessful students who sat for mathematics examination across the state.
He added that “mathematics is one subject many students hate so much. I personally failed the subject during my first sitting but made it two years after serious determination to pass it.
“So, you can imagine the benefits of having the centre here in Benue so that students will be made to like the subject at early age of their learning.”
He commended President Mohammadu Buhari for appointing Prof. Onah, a Benue indigene as
chief executive of the Centre and urged the staff to give him their maximum cooperation.
Earlier, Onah had told the governor that the Centre had designed several mathematics
programmes for easy learning, adding that it had also procured text books, instructional materials and teaching aids for teachers in selected schools.
He said the Centre was determined to deliver on its mandate of developing appropriate initiatives of international standards to rekindle and sustain interest in the study of mathematics and the sciences at all levels in the country.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that mathematics is one of the subjects most students do not like and it has continued to record high failure rate in examinations in the country. (NAN)
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(Edited by Hadiza Mohammed-Aliyu)