By Chad Bryan February 25, 2016
Calabar High School is boasting significant results from an initiative being spearheaded by the institution’s alumni to improve mathematics passes among students.
The ‘Building a Mathematics culture at Calabar’ programme, launched in 2013, has seen an almost doubling of passes by the boys sitting the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.
It has also resulted in improvements in scores received by students taking internal tests.
Immediate, Past President of the Calabar Old Boys’ Association (COBA), Kevin Whyte, says the body in pleased with the results.
“In 2013, the CSEC math passes were 44 per cent. In 2014, it moved to about 62 per cent and in 2015, the math passes for Calabar at CSEC was over 80 per cent,” he tells JIS News in an interview.
http://jis.gov.jm/calabar-high-boys-acing-math/
Calabar High School is boasting significant results from an initiative being spearheaded by the institution’s alumni to improve mathematics passes among students.
The ‘Building a Mathematics culture at Calabar’ programme, launched in 2013, has seen an almost doubling of passes by the boys sitting the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.
It has also resulted in improvements in scores received by students taking internal tests.
Immediate, Past President of the Calabar Old Boys’ Association (COBA), Kevin Whyte, says the body in pleased with the results.
“In 2013, the CSEC math passes were 44 per cent. In 2014, it moved to about 62 per cent and in 2015, the math passes for Calabar at CSEC was over 80 per cent,” he tells JIS News in an interview.
http://jis.gov.jm/calabar-high-boys-acing-math/
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