Mathematics Faculty

WHY STUDY MATHEMATICS?

        Mathematics education aims to:

·        Help students to develop a belief in the value of mathematics and its usefulness to them, to nurture confidence in their own mathematical ability, to foster a sense of personal achievement , and to encourage a continuing and creative interest in mathematics.

·        Develop in students the skills, concepts, understandings and attitudes that will enable them to cope confidently with the mathematics of everyday life.

·        Help students to develop a variety of approaches to solving problems involving mathematics, and to develop the ability to think and reason logically.

·        Help students to achieve the mathematical and statistical literacy needed in a society which is technologically oriented and information rich

·        Provide students with the mathematical tools, understandings, and attitudes they will require in the world of work.

·        Provide a foundation for those students who may continue studies in mathematics or other learning areas where mathematical concepts are central

·        Help to foster and develop mathematical talent.