The Chief Executive Officer at the National Mathematical Center (NMC), Prof. Stephen Onah, has blamed dismal performance of students in WAEC and NECO examinations in successive years on unqualified teachers in Mathematics.
He listed a number of factors that are responsible for this poor performance of Nigerian students in Mathematics, according to him this factors include:
1. School owners employ nonprofessional teachers to teach students in this highly esteemed subject, which leads to fact that were the teacher is not well grounded what then will be the faith of the students.
2. High standards maintained by WAEC and NECO with unqualified mathematics teachers teaching the subject.
3. lack of enough hand on deck to train students in this subject thereby schools employing unqualified and nonprofessional teachers, same times people from different field of study been employed to teach the subject.
“Because the WAEC and NECO which are of international standard will not lower their standard because Nigeria has not enough hands or qualified teachers to train its students.
“They will always maintain their standard and so if we are not living up to that standard, that explains our poor performances,’’ he said
The professor held the view that when the number of teachers is not equal to that of the students’ population effective teaching becomes a problem.
4. lack of teachers motivation, the prof called for an increase in the incentives given to mathematics teachers, saying lack of motivation for teachers in critical subjects such as Mathematics is very common in nation’s system of education.
He recommended the current government in improving the and quality methodology of learning in different sectors of education in the country most especially primary and secondary schools.
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