UNILAG undergraduate, Moshood Abiola Invents Maths Game for a more Interesting Maths Experience

Moshood Abiola

This is the kind of news that excites me. I have never had any doubt that fresh ideas abound in Nigeria and I believe there is more to the youths of Nigeria than mere crime and corruption. The government and corporate bodies should endorse and encourage youths like these rather than waste their money on irrelevant things.

A final year student of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, Moshood Abiola has narrated to P.M. News how he spent ten years to invent a new maths game for primary and secondary school students.

The 26-year-old Mathematics Education student of UNILAG, said he had always thought of how to help younger minds erase the fear that mathematical equations posed to them but did not know how to go about it.

“At a point, I thought it was not possible because everything I came up with was counter-productive,” he said.

“So, more often than not, I ended up abandoning the project though it was a burning desire on my mind,” he added.

Abiola finally found a solution to the problem in the tiles on his toilet wall. According to him, “I was looking at the tiles in the toilet one day when I suddenly realised that I could use the format of the tiles to arrive at my goal. I quickly adopted the format and it worked like magic.”

According to the young student, “the game is played with a dice and a maximum of six ‘seeds’ of different colours.

“The yellow patch on the game’s surface implies multiplication, green means addition, red means pick a card which could have any action, blue signifies subtraction, black means division while the white patch shows that you have ended the game.

“The black patch where you’ll have to divide is only found on boxes with numbers 60, 120 and 180; all these numbers are divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 so, there won’t be any problem while playing the game.”

Abiola has reportedly tested the reality of the game with an average of 50 kids and believes that the game will help youngsters cure their abstract perception of mathematics.

“The game is in series. This first one is Math Race 1 for pupils from primary 2-6. The second and third ones are Math Race 2 and 3 for Junior and Senior Secondary School students respectively”.

“There is also Math War which is basically to help with the challenges of multiplication. With all of these, I am sure that students will fear mathematics less,” the creative student said. You can read the full story on P.M. News online.

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