2019 UTME Candidate With Highest Score Calls for use of Local Languages In Teaching Maths
Ekene Franklin, the 2019
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) top scorer has called on the
Federal Government to amend the method of teaching mathematics so as to
benefit students and make them successful. Franklin said mathematics and
science subjects should be taught in local languages which students could
easily understand. This, he said would bring out the genius in the learners.
Franklin
who scored 347 marks said in an interview with Daily Trust that students should
learn mathematics by memorising steps and formula. The inability to learn by
heart, he said tended to develop the fear of mathematics.
“Mathematics
should be taught informally; we must put aside this formal method of teaching
maths to make it appealing to many. In China, they learn maths using their
language, and I think that has really helped them. There are a lot of geniuses,
but mathematics becomes difficult to learn because of the technicality of the
way it is being taught,” he said.
Commenting on his admission
complication, Franklin expressed sadness over the age limit policy which denied
him admission. He, however, said he would not hesitate to wait till next year
when he attained 16 years, the traditional age for admission, to enroll in
university.
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