The minister of Science and technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has the government plans to ensure that primary schools begin to teach mathematics and science subjects in indigenous languages.
This is to encourage the application of science and technology in the country.
The minister said, “The Ministry of Science and Technology is worried over the low interest in mathematics and the science subjects, so, we are working on plans to teach mathematics and sciences in indigenous languages in primary schools.
These pupils grow up with their indigenous languages at home before they start going to school, where they are now taught in foreign languages. So, we have observed that there is a challenge to understand the foreign languages first before they could even start understanding what they are being taught.
We believe that this plan will help our students to understand mathematics and the science subjects, and also promote the application of science and technology for national development.”
The minister said there was a need to first develop the vocabulary of the indigenous languages before they could be used to teach the subjects effectively in schools.
He continued that the Ministry of Science and Technology would collaborate with the Ministry of Education in order to develop the capacity of the local languages to serve as effective tools for teaching mathematics and science subjects.
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