Half Assini (W/R), July 5, GNA - Mr Sylvester Noumah Daddieh, Jomoro District Chief Executive (DCE), has called for the provision of adequate science and mathematics teaching aids for basic, first and second cycle schools to ensure effective teaching and learning of the subjects.

Speaking during the launch of a book entitled: 93Brain Child Integrated Science" for Junior High Schools at Half Assini Senior High School (HASCO) on Monday, he noted that Government recognized the pivotal role mathematics and science played in developing the country.

Mr Daddieh said the importance of science education could not be over-emphasized, adding that it stimulated and aroused pupils' curiosity about phenomena and events in the world around them.

"Satisfy curiosity with knowledge because it gives direct practical experience with ideas and its methods about developing and evaluating through experimental evidence."

Mr Daddieh indicated that pupils learned to ask questions and to discuss issues that might affect their own lives to the direction of the society and the future of the world.

Ms Samia Yaba Nkrumah, Member of Parliament for Jomoro, in a speech read on her behalf, said education with science materials was very necessary to achieving academic excellence.

Mr Bartholomew Kwame Ofori, Jomoro District Director of Education, advised the students to be punctual at school and to take their studies seriously.

He noted that students, who failed science and mathematics in examinations, might not be able to pursue further education since it was a requirement to enter tertiary institutions.

Mr Elijah Nkrumah, Assistant Headmaster in charge of academic affairs at HASCO, expressed joy that a former student of the school had authored the book.

He said Integrated Science was a subject most students were afraid of and added that the book had come at an opportune time to help the students to pass their exams.

The author of the book, Mr Emmanuel Arthur, a former student of HASCO, said the fallen standards of Mathematics and Integrated Science in the Half Assini area made him to write the book.

He expressed the hope that the book would help students to improve upon their knowledge of science.