Report by: Ishmael Barfi
Stakeholders in the education sector have been called upon to include UCMAS in the Ghanaian education curriculum to boost the mental thinking of the Ghanaian student.
According to Mrs. Rosemary Okla UCMAS Area Manager for Adenta-New Legon, the UCMAS brain developing program that helps to develop the child’s brain through the use of mathematics is of importance in the quest of building the mental knowledge of the Ghanaian child.
“It is time to integrate UCMAS into the Ghanaian curriculum to build mental knowledge and intelligence of the Ghanaian child at the early stages of education”, she reiterated.
Adding that, “It helps the child to be accurate as well as concentrate in all subjects and also enhances the creative ability of the child”.
Mrs. Rosemary Okla, the Area Head for Adenta made this call at this year’s first UCMAS Adenta Area competitions for first-cycle schools held at UCMAS Center, Victory Presby School, New Legon, Accra.p
Mrs. Rosemary Okla being assisted by a Quiz Master to present the Trophy to Caleb Gamor, the Overall Winner
The UCMAS Adentan Area consists of New Legon, Frafraha, Adentan, and its environs.
UCMAS stands for Universal Concept of Mental Arithmetic System. UCMAS is a Program, that uses an Abacus as the tool, Arithmetic as the evaluation process, and Kinesthetic learning as the methodology, to develop Cognitive Skills in the children between ages of 5 and 13 years.
Along with strengthening math skills, the UCMAS approach promotes whole brain development and establishes foundational building blocks like Concentration, Observation, Memory, Imagination, Comprehension, Judgement, Analysis, Reasoning, and self-confidence – core skills that inspire greater confidence and success in all subject areas and life.
The program equips them with the skills they need to improve overall academic achievement and to confidently meet life’s challenges and achieve greatness.
This year’s first Area program had six schools competing for a spot to compete in the national competition slated for August, this year.
The six schools were Peterrock, The Children’s Garden School, Gracia Montessori, and Helga International School.
The rest were Rossamen School, and HighCrest School.
The UCMAS curriculum helps the child to be creative, to be accurate as well as concentrate and also helps the child to be very confident.
In addition, the child develops a photographic memory of the curriculum, hence helping children in so many ways.
Recommending UCMAS, the Adenta Area Manager was of the view that it is important for children who are in their development or formative age from five to 14 years.
“And that it helps the child in all round. It improves the child’s mental academic performance, especially in maths and also in other sciences as well as also helps the child to stand out academically”, she reaffirmed.
Touching on the purpose of the competition, Mrs. Okla indicated that, it has been a long time such competition was organized in her Area hence to create awareness in the area that, UCAMS still exists in Adenta-New Legon.
Furthermore, to encourage other schools within to also enroll in the UCMAS program.
The Competition she explained was to also serve as a platform to select the best performance and prepare them for the national Competition slated for August, this year.
At the end of the competition, the Winners of the listening calculations write and show were Caleb Gamor, Helga International, 1st and 2nd Runner Up were Beatrice Owusu and Zainab Saeed respectively from Peterrock.
For the Listening Calculation Call Over winners were Nana Kofi Amankwah and Elenoura Bimunka Dentah both from Gracia Montessori, 1st and 2nd Runner Up went to Othnyel Tekpertey Tetteh and Emmanuel Adom Okla of Victory Presby School UCMAS Centre.
Listening Calculation Call Upper winners were Tristan Nimako and Kofi Amo Agyeman, both of Rossamens Academy, 1st and 2nd Runner Up went to Immanuel Aguda and Dromi Larnor Odoi both of the Victory Preparatory School UCMAS center
For the written Competition, winners for Category A were Anaya Yaa Abigail Tawia, Kwaku Obeng Donkor Junior, and Jeremy Akroti Quarcoo, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively.
Winners for Category B were Elorm Seshie, Othniel Asante Antwi, and Ayman Razak Abaari, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively.
For Category C, the winners were Immanuel Aguda, Amina Tanko Yahya, and Rochelle Boateng, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively.
Category D winners were Othniel Terkpetey Tetteh, Joshua Adeiku Senyo, and Gianni Valentino Adu, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively.
The Overall Champion of the Competition was Caleb Gamor of Helga International School who took home a trophy.pp
Source: www.thenewindependentonline.com
