NL1960:


You are very funny. You think i attended a local secondary school?. In my set of about 150 students, we currently have about 30 Medical Doctors of which about 5 are Professors not only in Nigeria but abroad. This is not to mention the large number of Engineers and Computer scientists. In my days, we did Additional Mathematics that had the terrifying red textbook by Godman and Talbert and not Further Mathematics.

Just to give you a hint of the school for you to know if it was a local school and therefore if the person was a local champion, the immediate past governor of Lagos state was my senior in secondary school.

Sir, small play! I apologize if I was petty with my response! Was just catching fun! Wow! You just burst my bubbles with these profiles.. I celebrate you greatly... I studied animal science from a reputable federal institution, and served with the ministry of Agriculture osun state and has worked with 3 firms in different capacity for 5 years from ranging from medical sales rep to procurement officer and logistic supervisor and currently in need of new work space sir, should you have any vacancy or link, I should be the one to consider, I would definitely be of great addition to any firm lucky to have me! My CV Is available on request sir!!

Best Regards
Adetola

DrObiHogan:
I love things like this. I can sponsor the program with 100k really. I live in my parents house with no intentions of moving out, I have nothing to do with money aside food, I'm not married, still contemplating and I earn enough to be very cool.

Lol, you must be in your early or mid twenties, your parent's house might be a mighty mansion with enough rooms to spare.

Else, I don't see why you don't plan to move when you are already earning comfortably.

bamirotola:


Sir, small play! I apologize if I was petty with my response! Was just catching fun! Wow! You just burst my bubbles with these profiles.. I celebrate you greatly... I studied animal science from a reputable federal institution, and served with the ministry of Agriculture osun state and has worked with 3 firms in different capacity for 5 years from ranging from medical sales rep to procurement officer and logistic supervisor and currently in need of new work space sir, should you have any vacancy or link, I should be the one to consider, I would definitely be of great addition to any firm lucky to have me! My CV Is available on request sir!!

Best Regards
Adetola

No wahala.

Was just trying to correct the impression you have about people up North. Every region has brilliant people. I schooled with people from all over the country. When ministerial list came out, some people sneered at some of the nominees without checking the profiles of some of them. When i pointed out Dr Isa Pantami, DG NITDA (B.Sc, M.Sc, Phd Computer Science (ABU)) to them, their mouths were opened.

If you studied Animal Science, then make you begin head to Akwa Ibom now. The state has imported 2000 cattle to kickstart its ranching programme. Your expertise will be needed there.

Darivie04:

Most teachers cannot prepare their students for olympiads so they prefer to focus on the one they can handle which is cowbellpedia. I've observed this both from first hand and second hand experiences.

Besides the top countries in the IMO have kids who start preparing for it from primary school and they usually have a lot more resources and support given to them.

So I don't really consider it a shame based on the state of Nigeria.

I have a very good Algebra textbook (PDF) whose standards is slightly beyond Olympiad level.
I'll send you the title as a text message(so that you may download it) since I have your mobile number(I tired calling but couldn't reach you).

MathsEconomics:


I have a very good Algebra textbook (PDF) whose standards is slightly beyond Olympiad level.
I'll send you the title as a text message(so that you may download it) since I have your mobile number(I tired calling but couldn't reach you).

I'm always happy to add a new book to my library.
I'm currently using Topics in Algebra and Analysis to learn the basics.

MathsEconomics, can we try our little best to revive the dead mathematical culture?
How do we offer tutorials and the rest??

naturalwaves:


There will be at least 13 episodes in all and the show will be aired in 6 local stations, Dstv African Magic as well as AIT network from August 10.So, keep tabs on them. Moreover, in case you miss any of the series, just go to YouTube and you can watch from the cowbellpedia channel. Betterstill, subscribe to the channel and click on the notification bell so that you will be notified once a fresh episode is uploaded. This is a link to the Cowbellpedia channel below:

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC0cpyv-4619wm0Qy11wrP7Q

This year's edition is season 5 so when it starts, the videos will be in these format... SE05E1(Season 5 episode 1), S05E2(Season 5 Episode 2) and so on. This way, you will be able to keep tabs on which one you have watched and which one has been newly uploaded.

On the YouTube channel, I think fresh episodes are usually uploaded on Fridays around afternoon time. Once you follow the channel you should be good.

With 12 Junior national qualifiers scoring a perfect score of 100% in the qualifying exams, this is not an episode one should ever miss. I cannot wait to see how the young lads battle for honors both in the Junior and senior categories.

Here is a trailer for Season 5 also....... Enjoy!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heZc574jTvw

Foluhan is now going to SS2 at The Ambassadors College, Ota.
Those guys are out of this world

naturalwaves:
MathsEconomics, can we try our little best to revive the dead mathematical culture?
How do we offer tutorials and the rest??

We cannot do anything to save Mathematics in Nigeria.

I will take out my time to discuss some of the challenges anyone who attempts to bring Mathematics culture into Nigeria will experience.

1. FUNDING.
Sometime last year I saw a coursemate of mine in school with a man, they were both busy struggling on problems set at Nigerian Mathematics Olympiad. When I approached them, they showed the problem to me and I sat down with them and after some minutes, I gave them a solution to the problem. The man with my friend is actually a Vice Principal in a secondary school that participated for the Olympiad(Round1) and he immediately asked me if I would be able to train his students which I accepted.
Everything was going smooth with the tutoring and the kids were actually learning topics such a Polynomial anpropertiesal equations, Floor functions and its properties, Sums and Products, Classical inequalities, etc.

But after two months the school authorities asked us to end the programme and that they prefer to focus on Seplat, Cowbell, etc where they're sure there is money and that Olympiad is too difficult and yet the students are not awarded in millions like Cowbell.

Funding is actually a big problem. And this actually brings up the next factor

2. COLLECTIVE EFFORTS

Success in Mathematics Olympiad is not something that secondary school education can achieve, not even in the most advanced country in the world today.
School Mathematics do not cover Geometry topics such as Isogonal Conjugates, Harmonic bundles, Barycentric coordinates, etc. Yet these are powerful problem solving tools essential for success in the Olympiad.
In Hungary, Mathematicians we're actually the ones involved in training the students for this competition. Von Etovos(A scientist) established Maths Olympiad in Hungary and it several other top Mathematicians like J. von Neumann and Paul Erdos all took part of the Hungarian Mathematics Olympiad.

In Russia, the Mathematician Kolmogorov was even involved in setting Olympiad problems and encouraging the students to work hard in Mathematics. Russia has produced several profound Mathematicians from this Olympiad.

Same thing happened in China. At first, China was not even performing well at the Olympiads but their top Mathematicians took part and training the students and today they're literally the best.

What we have in Nigeria is university professors and lecturers. I am not aware of the existence of any internationally Mathematician in this country.
This is hardly surprising because our education system does not encourage productive thinking.

MathsEconomics:


We cannot do anything to save Mathematics in Nigeria.

I will take out my time to discuss some of the challenges anyone who attempts to bring Mathematics culture into Nigeria will experience.

1. FUNDING.
Sometime last year I saw a coursemate of mine in school with a man, they were both busy struggling on problems set at Nigerian Mathematics Olympiad. When I approached them, they showed the problem to me and I sat down with them and after some minutes, I gave them a solution to the problem. The man with my friend is actually a Vice Principal in a secondary school that participated for the Olympiad(Round1) and he immediately asked me if I would be able to train his students which I accepted.
Everything was going smooth with the tutoring and the kids were actually learning topics such a Polynomial anpropertiesal equations, Floor functions and its properties, Sums and Products, Classical inequalities, etc.

But after two months the school authorities asked us to end the programme and that they prefer to focus on Seplat, Cowbell, etc where they're sure there is money and that Olympiad is too difficult and yet the students are not awarded in millions like Cowbell.

Funding is actually a big problem. And this actually brings up the next factor

2. COLLECTIVE EFFORTS

Success in Mathematics Olympiad is not something that secondary school education can achieve, not even in the most advanced country in the world today.
School Mathematics do not cover Geometry topics such as Isogonal Conjugates, Harmonic bundles, Barycentric coordinates, etc. Yet these are powerful problem solving tools essential for success in the Olympiad.
In Hungary, Mathematicians we're actually the ones involved in training the students for this competition. Von Etovos(A scientist) established Maths Olympiad in Hungary and it several other top Mathematicians like J. von Neumann and Paul Erdos all took part of the Hungarian Mathematics Olympiad.

In Russia, the Mathematician Kolmogorov was even involved in setting Olympiad problems and encouraging the students to work hard in Mathematics. Russia has produced several profound Mathematicians from this Olympiad.

Same thing happened in China. At first, China was not even performing well at the Olympiads but their top Mathematicians took part and training the students and today they're literally the best.

What we have in Nigeria is university professors and lecturers. I am not aware of the existence of any internationally Mathematician in this country.
This is hardly surprising because our education system does not encourage productive thinking.

I am thinking it will be nice if we can start from the basics, you know? Like create a platform for students, like going to the government schools to start a project or adding them on for Mathematica mentorship etc. I observe that the foundation is the problem. I have taught in a government school before moving to an international school. While I was there, I had to volunteer to start taking maths, furthermaths and physics as the teachers handling them were nothing to write home about in terms of mastery and knowledge. The best brains are not in education and this is so sad. I am not a core mathematician by training as I am a computer scientist. So, I am not so much familiar with the very advanced concepts you mentioned. I know you are pained by our horrendous performances at the Olympiad but we need to crawl before walking. The foundation is already skewed negatively so we need to start from there. China has about 154 gold medals at the Olympiad. Nigeria has just 5 bronze medals. Although, we started participating after the new millennium but that's not an excuse. Are you in Lagos?

Buffalo2:
Foluhan is now going to SS2 at The Ambassadors College, Ota.
Those guys are out of this world

That means I should expect to see Foluhan next year.

naturalwaves:

Lolz. He wants those from Lekki right?
Good education cannot be free. In my school, pupils in Primary 2 work perfectly well on Excel.... Can gather data, launch the program, put them into cells and even use pictograms and different graphs to represent the information. In the secondary school, students pack A1 in WASSCE like beans. Imagine having up to 10 Mathematics teachers in a Primary school alone and having multiple teachers to teach you as well in the secondary. Imagine having at least 2 teachers to teach you Physics and the likes. How you no go score A1 when dem no swear for you. . Don't ask me for the name though.

Oga Naturalwaves, please tell us the school name.

ajsans:


Oga Naturalwaves, please tell us the school name.

naturalwaves:

Give me hint since you're not willing to reveal full name.

ajsans:

Give me hint since you're not willing to reveal full name.

B. B. G. F. T. S. C

ajsans.....Hope you saw the hint when I posted it?

naturalwaves:
ajsans.....Hope you saw the hint when I posted it?

Too hard to crack. Still doing permutation on Google.

ajsans:

Too hard to crack. Still doing permutation on Google.

Haba...... Did you see the full sentence I wrote?

naturalwaves:

Haba...... Did you see the full sentence I wrote?

I did not. Only saw the abbreviation

ajsans:

I did not. Only saw the abbreviation

The abrreviation was from the full sentence now.
BBGFTSC

I have helped you to delete the post because you quoted the clue @ajsans

naturalwaves:
I have helped you to delete the post because you quoted the clue @ajsans

naturalwaves:

I am thinking it will be nice if we can start from the basics, you know? Like create a platform for students, like going to the government schools to start a project or adding them on for Mathematica mentorship etc. I observe that the foundation is the problem. I have taught in a government school before moving to an international school. While I was there, I had to volunteer to start taking maths, furthermaths and physics as the teachers handling them were nothing to write home about in terms of mastery and knowledge. The best brains are not in education and this is so sad. I am not a core mathematician by training as I am a computer scientist. So, I am not so much familiar with the very advanced concepts you mentioned. I know you are pained by our horrendous performances at the Olympiad but we need to crawl before walking. The foundation is already skewed negatively so we need to start from there. China has about 154 gold medals at the Olympiad. Nigeria has just 5 bronze medals. Although, we started participating after the new millennium but that's not an excuse. Are you in Lagos?

I left Lagos but I'll return next month.
Whatever you're trying to do you must look at funding because you don't want to start that you cannot maintain.

You said our best minds are not in education yet you forget that in Nigeria the mentality is making money. I can tell you that 90% of the(few) most intelligent students we have are either studying Engineering or a Medical course because they need fat salaries and good job security.
Please abort the mentality that our education system is bad because of funding from government or the salary scale. Our education system is bad because productive thinking and scholarly life is strongly discouraged in Nigeria.

For a nation to develop the conditions needs to be favourable, the mentality of the African man is too low to nurture these conditions.

In Cambridge University you'll find positions such as Sadlerian Chair of Pure Mathematics, Lucasian Chair of Mathematics, Stokes Lecturer in Mathematics, etc. These were positions created by some of the wealthiest individuals in Britain then. These positions come with honours and privileges and Cambridge Mathematicians often have to make publications of their discovery to win these positions. Most of the books in Cambridge university library was never bought by the school, wealthy individuals gave it out to them free of charge, some even willed their entire property to the institute.
Cambridge developed because the citizens of that country had the right mentality.
Most of the Mathematics Competitions( like Putnam) and other international awards were actually established by wealthy individuals in those countries where those events takes place.

The richman in Nigeria and Africa has no business with education, even if they go in, it is only for eye service and they quickly withdraw from it, they'll rather build their own universities than establish Mathematics Chairs in the already existing universities.

Most(if not all) of the greatest Mathematicians in England and German did not wait for government funding to engage in research. Some even died in poverty.
Abraham DeMoivres that made profound contributions to Probability Theory and Trigonometry actually died poor. He survived tutoring students but still engaged in Mathematics and produced excellent results.
Most of the scientists that did work in Applied Mathematics and Electricity actually had to produce the materials themselves and solve worked overnight at laboratories.
The list of Mathematicians and Physicists that died poor is endless

I'm not championing for poverty. My point is that these countries were able to develop because they had people passionate enough to contribute to scientific progress regardless of the conditions.
In Nigeria nobody wants to suffer, "Where will I work if I study Mathematics"? Is the questions many will ask you.

The mentality of Nigerians is too low and thus. We cannot smell any scientific breakthrough in fields as rigorous as Mathematics and Physics.


Please my brother, develop yourself and if you have the opportunity leave this country. I was once a fool that thinks I can do something for Nigeria. I even taught Mathematics for free in a secondary school and organized lessons but my efforts backfired against me.

You cannot change the situation here. Nigerians don't need stress, they just want to work and be paid fat salaries. Nobody wants to become Philosophers and Mathematicians. If you even read too much they start to believe you have no life or old fashioned. I curse the day I became a Nigerian.

MathsEconomics:


I left Lagos but I'll return next month.
Whatever you're trying to do you must look at funding because you don't want to start that you cannot maintain.

You said our best minds are not in education yet you forget that in Nigeria the mentality is making money. I can tell you that 90% of the(few) most intelligent students we have are either studying Engineering or a Medical course because they need fat salaries and good job security.
Please abort the mentality that our education system is bad because of funding from government or the salary scale. Our education system is bad because productive thinking and scholarly life is strongly discouraged in Nigeria.

For a nation to develop the conditions needs to be favourable, the mentality of the African man is too low to nurture these conditions.

In Cambridge University you'll find positions such as Sadlerian Chair of Pure Mathematics, Lucasian Chair of Mathematics, Stokes Lecturer in Mathematics, etc. These were positions created by some of the wealthiest individuals in Britain then. These positions come with honours and privileges and Cambridge Mathematicians often have to make publications of their discovery to win these positions. Most of the books in Cambridge university library was never bought by the school, wealthy individuals gave it out to them free of charge, some even willed their entire property to the institute.
Cambridge developed because the citizens of that country had the right mentality.
Most of the Mathematics Competitions( like Putnam) and other international awards were actually established by wealthy individuals in those countries where those events takes place.

The richman in Nigeria and Africa has no business with education, even if they go in, it is only for eye service and they quickly withdraw from it, they'll rather build their own universities than establish Mathematics Chairs in the already existing universities.

Most(if not all) of the greatest Mathematicians in England and German did not wait for government funding to engage in research. Some even died in poverty.
Abraham DeMoivres that made profound contributions to Probability Theory and Trigonometry actually died poor. He survived tutoring students but still engaged in Mathematics and produced excellent results.
Most of the scientists that did work in Applied Mathematics and Electricity actually had to produce the materials themselves and solve worked overnight at laboratories.
The list of Mathematicians and Physicists that died poor is endless

I'm not championing for poverty. My point is that these countries were able to develop because they had people passionate enough to contribute to scientific progress regardless of the conditions.
In Nigeria nobody wants to suffer, "Where will I work if I study Mathematics"? Is the questions many will ask you.

The mentality of Nigerians is too low and thus. We cannot smell any scientific breakthrough in fields as rigorous as Mathematics and Physics.


Please my brother, develop yourself and if you have the opportunity leave this country. I was once a fool that thinks I can do something for Nigeria. I even taught Mathematics for free in a secondary school and organized lessons but my efforts backfired against me.

You cannot change the situation here. Nigerians don't need stress, they just want to work and be paid fat salaries. Nobody wants to become Philosophers and Mathematicians. If you even read too much they start to believe you have no life or old fashioned. I curse the day I became a Nigerian.

This is the raw truth.

MathsEconomics:


I left Lagos but I'll return next month.
Whatever you're trying to do you must look at funding because you don't want to start that you cannot maintain.

You said our best minds are not in education yet you forget that in Nigeria the mentality is making money. I can tell you that 90% of the(few) most intelligent students we have are either studying Engineering or a Medical course because they need fat salaries and good job security.
Please abort the mentality that our education system is bad because of funding from government or the salary scale. Our education system is bad because productive thinking and scholarly life is strongly discouraged in Nigeria.

For a nation to develop the conditions needs to be favourable, the mentality of the African man is too low to nurture these conditions.

In Cambridge University you'll find positions such as Sadlerian Chair of Pure Mathematics, Lucasian Chair of Mathematics, Stokes Lecturer in Mathematics, etc. These were positions created by some of the wealthiest individuals in Britain then. These positions come with honours and privileges and Cambridge Mathematicians often have to make publications of their discovery to win these positions. Most of the books in Cambridge university library was never bought by the school, wealthy individuals gave it out to them free of charge, some even willed their entire property to the institute.
Cambridge developed because the citizens of that country had the right mentality.
Most of the Mathematics Competitions( like Putnam) and other international awards were actually established by wealthy individuals in those countries where those events takes place.

The richman in Nigeria and Africa has no business with education, even if they go in, it is only for eye service and they quickly withdraw from it, they'll rather build their own universities than establish Mathematics Chairs in the already existing universities.

Most(if not all) of the greatest Mathematicians in England and German did not wait for government funding to engage in research. Some even died in poverty.
Abraham DeMoivres that made profound contributions to Probability Theory and Trigonometry actually died poor. He survived tutoring students but still engaged in Mathematics and produced excellent results.
Most of the scientists that did work in Applied Mathematics and Electricity actually had to produce the materials themselves and solve worked overnight at laboratories.
The list of Mathematicians and Physicists that died poor is endless

I'm not championing for poverty. My point is that these countries were able to develop because they had people passionate enough to contribute to scientific progress regardless of the conditions.
In Nigeria nobody wants to suffer, "Where will I work if I study Mathematics"? Is the questions many will ask you.

The mentality of Nigerians is too low and thus. We cannot smell any scientific breakthrough in fields as rigorous as Mathematics and Physics.


Please my brother, develop yourself and if you have the opportunity leave this country. I was once a fool that thinks I can do something for Nigeria. I even taught Mathematics for free in a secondary school and organized lessons but my efforts backfired against me.

You cannot change the situation here. Nigerians don't need stress, they just want to work and be paid fat salaries. Nobody wants to become Philosophers and Mathematicians. If you even read too much they start to believe you have no life or old fashioned. I curse the day I became a Nigerian.

These points are exactly in line with my thoughts. It is well. Let me know whenever you get back to Lagos.

naturalwaves:

That means I should expect to see Foluhan next year.

Probably cos there are lots of Gurus in that school but if he can find his way out of the school's qualifiers, definitely he'll be back on our TV screens.

Buffalo2:
Probably cos there are lots of Gurus in that school but if he can find his way out of the school's qualifiers, definitely he'll be back on our TV screens.

I can imagine . He will have to try his best. I wish him all the best.

Buffalo2:
Probably cos there are lots of Gurus in that school but if he can find his way out of the school's qualifiers, definitely he'll be back on our TV screens.

In a school of maths gurus, qualifying out of the school is another tough competition. It is as tough as the competition they are going for.

naturalwaves:

That means I should expect to see Foluhan next year.

Probably if he makes it out of the qualifiers