Students are taught Math and English around 10 years up to the secondary level but they are not able use Math and English in their real life.Most of the students encounter a problem measuring ancestral land but they started to learn these in grade five Math curriculum. They cannot measure their cultivable land and how much wood will be needed for a window and or a door if they have to build a new home for them. Or according to Muslim law, how property does one inherit if one’s father expired and they have 4 brothers and 4 sisters or something else.
Most of the students will not be able to estimate how long a meter, or a millimetre is or how many drops of water can make a millilitre. And they cannot estimate how big is a square metre or a hectare of land or even one decimal of land. But all are taught in grade V Math curriculum.
When a fish seller or butchers who has little formal education can calculate the amount of money without any calculator most of our students cannot.
Many students cannot face foreigners or even cannot write a simple letter or an application or a paragraph in English. Most students cannot have conversation with each other.
We urge the authorities concerned to introduce Mental Math, Math Trail and speaking and listening from the Primary School Curriculum in the assessment system.
Mawduda Hasnin
<mawduda@gmail.com>
Rajshahi
Related Posts
