As part of the build-up to its 2016
Secondary School Mathematics Television Quiz Show, Cowbellpedia has developed a
multi-level mobile app that will allow students to practice Mathematics questions
everywhere with a lot of fun.
Festus Tettey, Head of Marketing,
Promasidor Nigeria Limited explained last week in Lagos, that the move was part
of measures to stimulate greater interest by students in Mathematics, which is
regarded as the bedrock of science and technology. The Mathematics Association
of Nigeria, MAN has identified Mathematics phobia as a major drawback for the
interest of students in the subject.
This Cowbellpedia
Mobile app, according to Tettey, can be downloaded on Google Play Store and
Apple Store. He added that this year’s competition will be in two stages:
Qualifying Written Examination and TV Quiz Show. The National Examination
Council NECO will conduct the Stage One examination according to him on
Saturday, March 19, 2016. NECO is an examination body in Nigeria that conducts the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination
and the General Certificate Examinations in Education in June/July and
December/January respectively.
Under this year’s arrangement, NECO
will deploy its massive infrastructure to improve the conduct of the
examination across the country. Tettey added that the Stage One of the
Mathematics Competition is open to students from 10 - 18 years of age attending
full time Secondary Education in both Public and Private Schools in Nigeria.
Entry into this competition is FREE.
Each School is
required to present their best ten (10) students in Mathematics (five from JSS3
and five from SSS2), irrespective of religion, tribe or state of origin, to
enhance their chance of qualifying for the next stage of the competition.
According to Tettey, the Stage One registration, which is online, involves
visiting www.cowbellpedia.ng
Also speaking on the
occasion, Managing Director of Promasidor Nigeria Limited, Mr. Olivier Thiry
acknowledged, the support of NECO, state Ministries of Education, school
principals and teachers, the press and other agency partners for their
continued support for the initiative over the years.
He explained from
2016, Promasidor has taken a strategic decision to bring all Mathematics
intervention activities by Cowbell under one umbrella, COWBELLPEDIA.
Thiry also informed
that the company has significantly increased the prize money for the
finals for both students and teachers. This year he said, the top prize student
winner in each category will go home with One Million Naira in addition to
other prizes, while the teacher will be awarded Four Hundred Thousand Naira.
“All these
improvements are to underscore Promasidor’s effort to provide a credible
platform that discovers, recognizes and rewards excellence in Mathematics, a
critical component of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
education in Nigeria. This is in addition to the quality nutrition that is
provided by the Cowbell brand for the nourishment of the Nigerian populace
especially children,” he said.
In order to encourage
the Girl Child Education, Thiry appealed that Mixed Secondary Schools
must nominate minimum two (2) girls for each category to represent such school.
“This is our own little way of encouraging the girl child to take interest in
education especially the STEM courses,” he said.
The winner in each category this year
will go home with a cash of One million naira, a medal, a trophy and an
all-expense paid vacation. The first and the second runner-up will take
N750,000 and N500,000 respectively. There will also be a plaque, mathematics
textbooks, desktop computers and printers for the winning schools.
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