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Furnish Resource Centre in Ashaiman

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PROBLEM

Ghana records approximately 13,500 basic schools with more than 380,000 students taking the Basic Education Certificate Examinations each year. Ashaiman records approximately 4000 students at the Junior High School level with 1250 students taking the Basic School Certificate Examinations each year and less than a 47% pass in Mathematics.

The poor performance of students in Mathematics could be caused by the students’ fear of Mathematics, unconducive classroom environment or the approaches used by the Mathematics teachers with the root cause being the concept these children have about Mathematics right from the primary educational level.


PLAN OF ACTION

Kids and Math plans to provide a Resource Centre which will serve as an avenue for students to discover the practicality of the Mathematics they learn in their classroom and help us perform our role as stakeholders of the educational system of Ghana.

We currently have a database of practical experiments on the various topics in the Junior High School Ghana Education Service Syllabus, Math Games, Inspirational Math Stories and Math tricks which will help the students further explore Mathematics and understand the concept behind each topic at hand. The Kids and Math Team plans to provide these information to students at the Math Resource Centre and engage them in group and individual projects.

Kids and Math has partnered with Young At Heart Ghana to integrate Information Technology with the study of Mathematics. Kids and Math has also partnered with Novan Education and Training, an organization that works with the Ghana Education Service, to help with training the Kids and Math Teaching Volunteers hence, making integration into the Ghana Education Service program effective.

Mathematics teachers in the Ashaiman Community will also benefit from this project by the help of Novan Education and Training which will use the Resource Centre as a facility to train the teachers in the community, under the Education Reform.

Our primary target groups are the more than 4000 Junior high school students in the Ashaiman Community. We plan to extend this project to all the 220,000 Junior high school students in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana by 2026 and consequently, the more than 1 million Junior high school students in Ghana by 2036 after we have established strong Kids and Math Chapters in the various tertiary and vocational institutions in Ghana.


Present state of Resource Centre



ITEMIZED BUDGET FOR THE MATH RESOURCE CENTRE

Cost - Description
$1100 - Stationery and Other Educational Materials
$140 - Electricals
$150 - Painting
$240 - Carpentry
$120 - Miscellaneous
$750 - Investment into the Math Resource Centre
$2500- Grand Total



ENDORSEMENT



Kids and Math is a youth-led non-profit organization that seeks to help basic school children realize and appreciate the versatility of Mathematics.

The mission of Kids and Math is to cause a gradual conceptual change towards Mathematics and a willingness to explore this field in the development of Ghana.


CONTACT US:
Website: www.kidsandmaths.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/mathandkidsoriginal 
Twitter: @kids_and_math
Instagram: @kidsandmath

Organizer and beneficiary

Princess Allotey
Organizer
Frankfurt
John Kotey
Beneficiary

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