yuzedo: NO!!!!! Only English are important. Is a this-grace dat dey still teaches Maths in skoool. dey shud change to Quantitative. Nobody need Algibra, calculux, aritmetick, geometri, etc to progrees in life. Just open shop in Alaba. Hope dis helps, cheers.

bbulldog: I promise nigerians, if I am elected as the president of this country, I WILL cAncel MATHEMATICS for nigeria students..........I pledge

yuzedo: NO!!!!! Only English are important. Is a this-grace dat dey still teaches Maths in skoool. dey shud change to Quantitative. Nobody need Algibra, calculux, aritmetick, geometri, etc to progrees in life. Just open shop in Alaba. Hope dis helps, cheers.

Kamsy10: In my opinion 'all mathematicians are intelligent'. Though not all intelligent people are mathematicians"

yuzedo: NO!!!!! Only English are important. Is a this-grace dat dey still teaches Maths in skoool. dey shud change to Quantitative. Nobody need Algibra, calculux, aritmetick, geometri, etc to progrees in life. Just open shop in Alaba. Hope dis helps, cheers.

Jarus: I used to be poor in Maths. In fact in primary school, I was nicknamed "I don't know maths" - for giving that as an answer when asked by my teacher to solve one maths problem.

I was very poor in Maths till SS2. I was however fortunate to meet one private teacher in SSS2 who taught me factorization and that was the first 'complex' maths I knew. Almost miraculously, from that point I found myself being able to solve some questions. I decided to go back to those maths textbooks of JSS 1-3, read them myself, now got it. I later moved to SSS 1 textbook and later SS2. I can't explain how I was getting it. Few months later I wrote GCE (in SS2) and scored B2 in Maths. That was my turning point - from being complete olodo in Maths up till SS2 to scoring B2 in WAEC(only 2 people scored A1 in Maths in my set.

That motivation further drove me to go learn Further Maths voluntarily. I started from integration (imagine learning integration without starting from differentiation). Mathematical courses later became my favourites when studying economics in the university.

The point is, if you believe so much in yourself, you can be good at it.

Now, should maths be made compulsory? I think for courses as law, sociology, political science, English and other arts subjects (except philosophy) a pass (E8 - 40%) should be acceptable. For economics, geography, accounting, a credit pass (C6 - 50%) should be the minimum.

Of course, no need talking about sciences and engineering, which bedrock mathematics is.

chic2007:


This is really good. I have a daughter who also hates maths but I know that when one finds a really good teacher, her attitude towards it might change. Can you kindly give me the details of the private teacher (if you still have them) so I can arrange for lessons for her. She is currently in SS2. Thanks in advance.

chic2007:


This is really good. I have a daughter who also hates maths but I know that when one finds a really good teacher, her attitude towards it might change. Can you kindly give me the details of the private teacher so I can arrange for lessons for her. She is currently in SS2. Thanks in advance.

doyexy: Wat is dis OP saying sef? U beta go and learn mathematics fast...y?
Becos most companies makes it compulsory to pass both maths and english in waec (very compulsory even if u studied an arts course)..then when u do job test,,u don't kw dat gmats, shl, and d likes r mostly mathematics??
Pls for your own sake go and learn maths and fall in love with maths because u will definitely come across it and this goes out to dose nairalanders still in skul dat entard d uni witout eida eng or maths in waec..
If u entard college witout a credit in english or maths just go and retake anoda waec or neco..if not na OYO u dey!!!!!

Mujitapha: If u don know math, u cant think critically.

nijanigga: Only in Nigeria you have many educated illiterates,unknown to these morons that great philosophers,poets etc were also great mathematicians,name them Pythagoras,Plato,Galileo,Lagrange,Aristotle etal.Just goggle great mathematicians and philosophers.If Mathematics wasn't of help to them they would have dumped it.The thing with Nigerians is that we love "short cut" to anything good.Understandably many are are forced to pursue a course,but those guys had fun playing with numbers,you must learn to have fun in learning. Even Albert Einstein studied classics.
"As God calculates so the world is made". Leibniz.

nna_bu_ike: "Is Mathematics Really Important?"

What a stupid question to ask!

vislabraye: A scientist or an engineer wouldn't ask such question. Even an economist knows the value of maths.
If you watch the movie, "beautiful mind," you would appreciate maths.

wise_many2k:


I don't mean to brag but maths its in my family's dna; hence, d reason u don't know maths is cos there's a dunce ontop of ur family tree dat hv transfered dull genes to u

But I don't c any big deal wit maths, I even taught my own classmates! Now u said u're studying political science...hence u're aiming 2 b a politician....just know dat d moment u steal govt money, u'll get caught by a blind man cos u don't know d basics of 1+1

carr96: I hate maths with a passion but iv never actually "failed" the subject...
What can I say?
I'm a medical student and Personally I don't think its important sha!

Olekumaster: you claimed that in your first year as a political science student, you did maths? I beg to disagree with you. I'm a politcal science student(300L) @Kogi State University. Not until your 2nd semester in 200L before you will come across a course related to mathematics, (and that's statistics). So my question ȋ̝̊̅​ƨ̣̇, where your own school d̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥? Wey na maths dem first d̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ teach you

yuzedo: NO!!!!! Only English are important. Is a this-grace dat dey still teaches Maths in skoool. dey shud change to Quantitative. Nobody need Algibra, calculux, aritmetick, geometri, etc to progrees in life.

chic2007:


This is really good. I have a daughter who also hates maths but I know that when one finds a really good teacher, her attitude towards it might change. Can you kindly give me the details of the private teacher so I can arrange for lessons for her. She is currently in SS2. Thanks in advance.

Mathano: Maths is d best subject ever,I luv mathematics,playing with ordinary differential equatn,groups and rings nd studying direct nd Iterative way of solving equtns.In short maths is fun.

yorke: Maths is my favorite course anytime any-day.....kinda wondering what i could have done without it. Any course that had to do you maths was my saving grace back in school.

Op,maths is very important cos all our day to day activities revolve around it.

NeoTesla:

I'm not sure what you're trying to get at here, but you come off as someone who is interested in pure mathematics. Pure mathematicians seem to love mathematics for mathematics sake. For those in the applied sciences and engineering, I am quite sure mathematics that has examples and is practical is what they find beautiful, interesting and enjoyable. But it is by no means easy.
For fun sake, I just remembered this joke that involved a pure mathematician, an engineer and a physicist:

A physicist, an engineer and a mathematician were all in a hotel sleeping when a fire broke out in their respective rooms. The physicist woke up, saw the fire, ran over to his desk, pulled out his CRC, and began working out all sorts of fluid dynamics equations. After a couple minutes, he threw down his pencil, got a graduated cylinder out of his suitcase, and measured out a precise amount of water. He threw it on the fire, extinguishing it, with not a drop wasted, and went back to sleep. The engineer woke up, saw the fire, ran into the bathroom, turned on the faucets full-blast, flooding out the entire apartment, which put out the fire, and went back to sleep. The mathematician woke up, saw the fire, ran over to his desk, began working through theorems, lemmas, hypotheses , you-name-it, and after a few minutes, put down his pencil triumphantly and exclaimed, "I have *proven* that I *can* put the fire out!" He then went back to sleep.

Nacl:

dfolan: in the Western part of the world mathematics is indispensable but not in this part of the world I mean sub Sahara Africa what we do in Africa is theoretical not applied. in western countries mathematics is applied in various fields to solve problems