Mathematics Books For Veep

Mr John Mahama - Vice-President

A publishing company, Manageress Cee Dordor Ventures, has presented a quantity of its new edition, Core Mathematics for West African Senior High Schools, to the Vice President, Mr John Dramani Mahama.

The company presented 150 Core and Elective Mathematics Books, authored by Mrs Gladys Ami Allotey, a Mathematics Teacher at the Koforidua Senior High School, to the Vice President to donate to any deprived school of his choice.

According to Mrs Allotey, she made the presentation because of the encouragement and commendation she got from the Vice President to become the first woman in the African sub-region to author a Mathematics text book.

The books, which are called the “Power Point Series - Core and Elective Mathematics for West Africa Senior High Schools and Colleges of Education,” cover SHS one to four.

Mrs Allotey explained that she decided to write the books to demystify the teaching and learning of mathematics in the West African sub-region.

“It is also to prove that proficiency in mathematics is not a preserve of males alone, but females can also do it. I also wish to serve as a role model for all young girls from primary school to the tertiary level,” she further explained.

Receiving the books, the Vice President advised mathematics teachers to use modern methods to teach the subject to make it attractive to learners at all levels of education.

He said the modernisation should include strategies that would erase the wrong belief that mathematics was a difficult subject and the preserve of only clever students.

He commended Mrs Allotey for authoring the books and said such a venture was worth supporting.