Important for what?
What's the essence of finding x and y now?
Will I apply BODMAS to when working in an office?
Standard deviation
Maths is useless
My grandma wey no go school sabi how to count money.

Hisbah21:
i dont agree,we have so many tribes to even start that. alot of confusion will happen. There are states with morethan 59 ethnic groups..English Language moderates alot of things in Nigeria.. National assemblies for instance,which tribe will be spoken there? no one will agree to speak others tribe, even if he agrees,he cant understand. the same thing will happen if we are taught in our tribes. There are some groups will less popularity and can hardly understand the majority tribes

This!

I tried reading BBC Igbo the other day I had to slow down my reading to a crawl in other to comprehend.

Beyond the different local languages, we also have a million dialects.

Hisbah21:
i dont agree,we have so many tribes to even start that. alot of confusion will happen. There are states with morethan 59 ethnic groups..English Language moderates alot of things in Nigeria.. National assemblies for instance,which tribe will be spoken there? no one will agree to speak others tribe, even if he agrees,he cant understand. the same thing will happen if we are taught in our tribes. There are some groups will less popularity and can hardly understand the majority tribes

Yesooooh my brother, I'm from imo state but I no fit understand Ebonyi state,it can never work,accent is too strong

It wouldn't be effective since most Nigeria languages don't have writing'

Language is one of the biggest problems in this country. I don’t know why we speak too many languages in this country……CONFUSION

One single language will have been better

So true.

Mathematics—through numbers—rule the world!!!

My students understand mathematics better when I explain to them in Yoruba. Sometimes I do code switching.

True!

That is why the Germans, Chinese and co excel in these subjects.

Very correct.
Of what use is teaching when there is little or no impartation just because of language and big vocabularies involved. If these subjects are taught in mother tongues, it will remove one major obstacle out of two. Students will then be left with understanding only the concept being taught.

It will drastically reduce the time taken for actual learning to take place.

Prof. Kayode.
This man is a father. I learnt a lot from him during my university days.

Even all these programming languages should be translated to our local tongue so that people will stop saying oyinbo dey perform magic

Maths is not about language you're using, but what's the life application? We only focus on theory.

Atimes, some Nigerian Profs. say thrash just like this one. In a state with 20 languages, what will happen? English gives us a level playing field!

Hisbah21:
i dont agree,we have so many tribes to even start that. alot of confusion will happen. There are states with morethan 59 ethnic groups..English Language moderates alot of things in Nigeria.. National assemblies for instance,which tribe will be spoken there? no one will agree to speak others tribe, even if he agrees,he cant understand. the same thing will happen if we are taught in our tribes. There are some groups will less popularity and can hardly understand the majority tribes

he said maths....read b4 u comment

danietohbadt:




So, what happens when a Yoruba man who learnt Mathematics in Yoruba gets a job in Anambra?
Then aside that, what happens when it comes to writing unified examinations like JAMB?
What happens when a Yoruba boy leaves his home to write post utme in a federal university in the North?

You leave the term in English and just use the mother's tongue to explain. Shikena!

It is rather unfortunate that the Bible and Quran were translated into various African languages but no book in science or engineering got translated into any native African language.

The Chinese, Japanese, Russians and other Bon English speaking countries teach sciences and arts in their own language.

It is about time we wake up.

Annie001:
Important for what?
What's the essence of finding x and y now?
Will I apply BODMAS to when working in an office?
Standard deviation
Maths is useless
My grandma wey no go school sabi how to count money.

What?! Mathematics useless? Capital no.
The statement is too shallow bros/sis.

Counting is the lowest, most basic part of mathematics. Next is simple addition, subtract, multiplication, division, etc.

Mathematics is the next most important subject after Language. It is the language of science which has brought all of the advance technology that have made our world such a beautiful place to live to today.

Without mathematics, the house you live in can not stand. What about invention of vehicles, guns, bulbs, determining the right proportion of chemicals in a drug, even fertilizers, manufacturing of farm machineries, war equipments, etc.

I could deduce from your assertion that you have been dealing with only few data and you are not really doing much of analysis. When you start analysing your income/expenses, measuring actual efforts against results in projects, projecting/predicting/analysing payroll, when you get to do serious data analysis, then you will appreciate Mathematics.

Mathematics is technology and technology is mathematics.

Nigeria is a country with so many ethnic groups and languages, so what language will WAEC, GCE, NECO and JAMB general mathematics use in setting the national examination for students in Nigeria? Will not be a chaos and cacofony or total confusion ? This Prof is playing with mass failure

If you like use heavenly language who go fail maths go still fail. You can only have little provement. Even in England some parents are protesting against maths..saying their wards mustn't study maths in school.

Lukgaf:



You leave the term in English and just use the mother's tongue to explain. Shikena!

Easier said, now when you make your explanation in the modern tongue, in what language will the students make their own explanations?
Mother tongue or English?


All I see is nothing but confusion

Lukgaf:
Without doubts, you'd agree with me that many students preparing for STEM subjects at O'level and undergrad really found it challenging. One of the reasons is the way mathematics some of this topics are being taught. Another challenge is the use of complex terms to explain the concept. I still recall my experiences at High School

I think I agree with this FUTA Professor, I think all science subjects we ran away from should be taught and explained in our mother's tongue.

What do you think guys?



https://tribuneonlineng.com/futa-don-recommends-use-of-nigerian-languages-in-teaching-of-mathematics/

Permit me to disagree with you a little. Why we are not excelling technologically isnt a problem of being taught in English rather the system itself. We run examination system where we are only judged by what we can remember/cram. School system to be changed to that which makes learners think, reflect and profer solutions to societal problems. I used to have a friend/class mate back then in FUTA, he was rock bottom of the class in terms of grades but we all know this guy is a genius, eventually the system frustrated him he went to India to study and came back doing wonderful things, too loaded to be employed by any company, he owns a company that install ricemill and so many other heavy industrial solutions, wrote several computer programs for FG and Ondo state.
Untill we change this, nothing is gonna change.
Even the kids you are suggesting should be taught in their mother tongues now find it easier to speak English more than their native language and that will bring more confusion. Lets clamour for a change of system

talk2hb1:
Computer Programming should be included too, I can't wait to see computer programming included in school curriculum!

Maths and programming, the future. Forget grammar, you don't know maths and logic, you know nothing.

Hisbah21:
i dont agree,we have so many tribes to even start that. alot of confusion will happen. There are states with morethan 59 ethnic groups..English Language moderates alot of things in Nigeria.. National assemblies for instance,which tribe will be spoken there? no one will agree to speak others tribe, even if he agrees,he cant understand. the same thing will happen if we are taught in our tribes. There are some groups will less popularity and can hardly understand the majority tribes

When mathematics turn national assembly debate

Go and ask the Indian or chinese how they are being taught STEM subjects. That's why they exceptional when u meet any Asians that know such subjects

For my own public secondary school, I really love maths, but unfortunately we were not taught further maths and I paid for it in my 100 and 200 level in university. And it affected me career wise. Both maths and further maths should be introduced to all secondary schools in Nigeria.

4good:


What?! Mathematics useless? Capital no.
The statement is too shallow bros/sis.

Counting is the lowest, most basic part of mathematics. Next is simple addition, subtract, multiplication, division, etc.

Mathematics is the next most important subject after Language. It is the language of science which has brought all of the advance technology that have made our world such a beautiful place to live to today.

Without mathematics, the house you live in can not stand. What about invention of vehicles, guns, bulbs, determining the right proportion of chemicals in a drug, even fertilizers, manufacturing of farm machineries, war equipments, etc.

I could deduce from your assertion that you have been dealing with only few data and you are not really doing much of analysis. When you start analysing your income/expenses, measuring actual efforts against results in projects, projecting/predicting/analysing payroll, when you get to do serious data analysis, then you will appreciate Mathematics.

Mathematics is technology and technology is mathematics.

Thank you!

Chinese are doing it, but welcome to Nigeria where people will laugh at you for not speaking another man's language correctly. It won't work here

I support this It’s a welcome idea

What kind of counterproductive suggestion is that, so in how any languages do we break it to before we even talk of start teaching

OmegaAutos:


Permit me to disagree with you a little. Why we are not excelling technologically isnt a problem of being taught in English rather the system itself. We run examination system where we are only judged by what we can remember/cram. School system to be changed to that which makes learners think, reflect and profer solutions to societal problems. I used to have a friend/class mate back then in FUTA, he was rock bottom of the class in terms of grades but we all know this guy is a genius, eventually the system frustrated him he went to India to study and came back doing wonderful things, too loaded to be employed by any company, he owns a company that install ricemill and so many other heavy industrial solutions, wrote several computer programs for FG and Ondo state.
Untill we change this, nothing is gonna change.
Even the kids you are suggesting should be taught in their mother tongues now find it easier to speak English more than their native language and that will bring more confusion. Lets clamour for a change of system

I partially agree with you sir. If we can explain the concept in our mother's tongue, then we are going to excel "excellently". Many students from rural areas are disadvantaged when it comes to understanding English. Many fails not because they do not understand the concept but because they do not know how to express themselves. Take, for example, sir, assuming you ask a kid (especially) those from the rural areas "what the uses of cutlass are"?, many of them might find it difficult to answer the question. But ask them in their mother's tongue, you will get a non-exhaustive list.

Lukgaf:


Ehn ehn..my thought is every northerners can speak basic Hausa. If that should be the case, then those who can't speak Hausa should use the language they understand to explain. Thanks

It can't work because of the diversity in terms of language.




You say let everyone do it in his language........ how many classes will you have considering the population??





Can all exams happen without the use of a language barrier breaking language like English?




Can the knowledge of the subject even be applied in the absence of a language barrier breaking language like English??



Every state in Nigeria requires a language barrier breaking language like English!

gazza07:
Chinese are doing it, but welcome to Nigeria where people will laugh at you for not speaking another man's language correctly. It won't work here

Stop this needless comparison!

GoldHorse:
True!

That is why the Germans, Chinese and co excel in these subjects.

All Germans understand german, same with chinese

So which of the Nigerian languages do we teach mathematics... do Nigerians speak Nigerian.

Perhaps u should state how his would work out before u start suggesting mission impossible ideas.

Make una dey reason