Fijai, Feb. 15, GNA – Fijai Senior High School won the
Valentine Day mathematics quiz competition organized by the
Ghana Mathematics Society at Sekondi on Monday. The school scored 37 points to beat Ghana Secondary
Technical School which obtained 32 in a keenly contested
quiz involving six schools in the Western Region. The other competing schools were the Half Assini Senior
High School which came third with 31 points followed by
Baidoo Bonsu Senior High School, Archbishop Porter Girls
Secondary School and Nkroful Agriculture Senior High
school. Mr. Ebenezer Otoo, a Lecturer at Takoradi Polytechnic
and Regional Chairman of the Society, said February 14
every year has been set aside by the society to celebrate
mathematics. He said statistics continued to indicate that the level of
familiarity with mathematics among students kept dropping
and urgent measures must be adopted to whip up interest of
students in the subject. Mr. Otoo said the studying of mathematics must be
encouraged as it was an important tool in solving teething
development challenges. Mr. Stephen Dandey, the regional organizer of the society
and a teacher at the Half Assini Senior High School, called on
the Ministry of Education to complement activities of the
society and other well meaning organizations to promote the
subject.
Source: GhanaWeb
