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Importance Of Maths In The Philippines

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Mathematics is the cradle of all creations, without which the world cannot move an inch. Be it a cook or a farmer, a carpenter or a mechanic, a shopkeeper or a doctor, an engineer or a scientist, a musician or a magician, everyone needs mathematics in their day-to-day life. Even insects use mathematics in their everyday life of existence. Snails make their shells, spiders design their webs, and bees build hexagonal combs. There are countless examples of mathematical patterns in nature 's fabric. Anyone can be a mathematician if one is given proper guidance and training in the formative period of one 's life. A good curriculum of mathematics is helpful in effective teaching and learning of the subject …show more content…

The Philippines is the last country in Asia to implement the 12-year basic education program. Before the K to 12 Program, it was one of three countries in the world with a 10-year pre-university cycle. For Filipino graduates to be able to compete globally and to adopt education standards that are recognized worldwide, the K to 12 Program was implemented through the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013.
Introduced in 2011 by the Department of Education (DepEd), headed by Secretary Armin Luistro, FSJ, the K to 12 Program made kindergarten a prerequisite to basic education. It lengthened basic schooling to include a two-year senior high school and offered technical and vocational courses to students not planning to go to college, thus giving them more chances of getting employed in blue-collar work.
Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which can be used to change the world.” Last June 3, 2013, over 23 million elementary and high school students in more than 45,000 public schools nationwide started, or continued, their journey to change the world. Markedly, however, most of them began the school year not only with new uniforms and new classmates, but with an entirely new

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