Improving the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics in Second Cycle Institutions in Ghana I

As a teacher of Mathematics, I am sure many of us feel quite disturbed and worried when the results of the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination are released and we observed that some subjects record as high as a hundred percent success while the results are often "spoilt" by mathematics. Graded 6 and above are usually oases of success in a desert of failure. This study addressed the way of improving the teaching and learning of mathematics in Second Cycle Institutions in Ghana.