Math becomes optional in Kenya’s senior secondary school

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Kenya’s education ministry announced in March 2025 that mathematics would be an optional subject in senior secondary school, which begins in grade 10. Most students in this grade are aged 15 years. The education minister said the mathematics taught from grade 4 to grade 9 was sufficient for foundational “numeracy literacy”.

The change, in January 2026, is part of a shift to a new education system styled as the competence based curriculum. The decision is not to scrap maths altogether but rather to make it optional. However, given the poor performance in this subject, it is expected there will be few takers.

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They are not rude, they are neurodivergent

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11 Behaviors That Seem Rude But Are Actually Signs Of Neurodivergence, According To Research

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Dyslexia more than 100 times more likely to be diagnosed than maths-learning disorder

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Researchers in Northern Ireland have found that many children are suffering from an undiagnosed developmental condition which affects their ability to learn maths.

A team of academics at Queen’s University Belfast who examined the performance of more than 2,400 primary schoolchildren found that some 112 children had a specific learning disorder in maths.

However, just one of these children was diagnosed with a specific maths-learning disorder, also known as dyscalculia.

The prevalence of the condition is thought to be similar to dyslexia, though there is far less awareness of it.

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The importance of a strong network when you have dyscalculia.

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