In today's Express newspaper on pages 28 and 31, there was an interesting article titled, Moving from instant messaging to algebra.
This is a perfect example of the way that modern technology is being used to help make learning easier.
I have attempted to copy a small portion of the article here-:
Trinidad and Tobago has a mobile phone subscription rate well over 100 percent. Yet we have an O-Level mathematics paper two pass rate of only 20 percent.
Clearly we like our mobile devices more than we do mathematics.
Recognising this, one graduate student of the University of the West Indies (UWI) has started a study to discover if the popularity of the former can boost the pass rates of the latter. Mathematics has come to the mobile phone.
The three month study entails using mobile phones to assist secondary school pupils to study mathematics by building games into the device that encourage them to learn.
The project is being carried out by Vanni Kalloo, a postgraduate scholarship student in UWI St.Augustine's Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.
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