KNEC Justifies Decision to Eliminate Mandatory Mathematics in Senior School.
KNEC Justifies Decision to Eliminate Mandatory Mathematics in Senior School.
Education stakeholders have stressed that Mathematics will only be required at the primary and junior secondary school levels. According to Julius Nyabundi, Chair of the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC), learners are well-prepared for life and higher education by the foundational skills in arithmetic acquired during these stages.
According to Nyabundi, the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) was developed to enhance numeracy until Grade 9, thus removing the requirement for the topic to be compulsory in senior school. He suggested that students in senior secondary school concentrate on subjects that align with their abilities, such as vocational or humanities courses, in order to improve academic perfo...