The Ministry of Education has stated that it could scale up a nationwide numeracy programme after admitting that efforts to improve mathematics among basic school pupils have lagged reading interventions.

Speaking to GhanaWeb on July 11, 2026, Head of the Science, Technology and Mathematics Unit and Foundation Learning at the Ministry of Education, Isaac Atta Baah, said the success of the programme had exposed a major gap in Ghana's education system.

"We've realised over the years that we have put a lot of interventions in place to help children to read, but it looks as if we've done little regarding numeracy," he said.

According to him, he will present a report to Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu and the ministry's management to push for the programme's expansion nationwide.

"I'm going to share this report with the Honourable Minister and the management of the Ministry of Education to expand this programme so that we can strengthen the numeracy level of children in this country," he stated.

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Atta Baah disclosed that the proposal would be tabled at a management meeting, expressing confidence that the minister would support efforts to scale up the initiative.

On gender performance, he revealed that girls continue to outperform boys in the competition, attributing it partly to years of targeted interventions for girls.

However, he warned that boys are increasingly being left behind, raising concerns over the growing number of young boys abandoning school for commercial motorcycle riding.

"We have a lot of NGOs into girls' empowerment, but we don't have that for the boys. We should also start putting in place good interventions to support them because a teacher, nurse, or doctor cannot marry an Okada boy," he said.

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