The Ministry of Education and Youth’s Math Counts program was introduced in 2013 as part of plans to enhance the teaching and learning of Mathematics across the country’s schools. In the roll out National Mathematics Coordinator at the Ministry of Education and Youth, Dr. Tamika Benjamin, outlined that the Ministry had identified a negative perception towards the subject among students. Many students, she said, did not see the relationship between what they are learning in the classroom and their everyday life experiences. Since then, however, teachers have been seeing a gradual shift.
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Jayda Francis
