Professor Sitsofe Anku, a mathematician has noted that many students failed Mathematics examinations because of poor command of the English language. He said mathematics involved ideas, investigations and creation of models to interpret real life issues adding, "being able to verbalize ideas correctly is a sure indicator of one's understanding of the ideas involved". Prof. Anku said at a just-ended Maths Camp organized for Senior Secondary School students in Accra that Mathematics was the bedrock of development of every nation. The Mathematics Professor, the brain behind the Meagasa Math Camp, said advanced countries had developed because they had used mathematics to their advantage through exploration of concepts. He said it was high time Ghanaians took mathematics seriously and used it in solving problems. "Mathematics is not a monster as teachers make it to look. Mathematics is not the problem but the way it is taught is the problem," he stressed Prof. Anku said opinions surrounding mathematics should be demystified and made simple to attract young people. The Maths Camp, he explained, was to help students appreciate the subject using modules and concepts in the simplest form into translating symbolic representations, which were mathematical. He said the aim of the Maths Camp was to help students write the subject once and for all by making it lovely, orderly, friendly and giving it a human face as well. The Professor said his dream was to have the Maths Camp replicated in the regions and crown it with a national one and he appealed to the Ghana Education Service and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports to give it the desired support. He mentioned logistical constraints as a major hindrance to the take-off of the regional and the national programmes. "For now, the concentration is in Accra and it would be extended to the JSS and primary levels," Prof. Anku said. Source: GNA