CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS OF DEVELOPING ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION

Abstract

Abstract Unemployment is a global phenomenon but its increasing rate in Nigeria is so alarming and the only means of tackling it is through developing entrepreneurship skills. Entrepreneurship is the development of the science of innovation, capability and willingness to organize and manage enterprise along with its risks taken in order to make profit. Human life is all about investment. Nigeria has been clamoring to elevate her citizens above the poverty level by organizing programs that could make her citizens become self-reliant, self-sufficient and self- actualized in order to be recognized and be counted among the developed countries of the world. The knowledge of mathematics helps in acquiring entrepreneurial skills among secondary school students by influencing knowledge of entrepreneurial skills in mathematics. The public and Private school system has contributed immensely to the development of education and by extension manpower base of the country. This paper looks at some challenges responsible for managing public and private secondary mathematics as an entrepreneurship education in Kano State and recommends among other things that Government should make fund available for the purchase of relevant materials for teaching entrepreneurship and as well train teachers to become more acquainted with the concepts of Mathematics and entrepreneurship education which they will invariably inculcate effectively on the students through workshops, conferences, symposium, etc. regularly.

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