ComBank sponsors math support program for four Mullaitivu schools

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Commercial Bank of Ceylon recently sponsored a math support program, benefitting 130 students in four schools in the Mullaitivu area, in collaboration with the Sasnaka Sansada Foundation whichconducted the program.

Aligned with the Bank’s education-centric corporate social responsibility agenda, this two-day residential program titled “Sasnaka Sansada Ganitha Saviya” was conducted in line with the essential teaching concepts of the Ministry of Education.

Students from Sampath Nuwara National School, Kalyanipura Vidyalaya, Paranagama Wewa Vidyalayaand Ehetugaswewa Vidyalaya, in which there is a dearth of mathematics teachers, were part of this math support program.

Conducted in response to a request made by the Maths branch of the Ministry of Education, the objective of this programwas to increase the level of achievement of the students and motivate them, thereby positively affecting the examination results of these schools, in which there is an 80% fail rate in mathematics at the GCE Ordinary Level.

The Math Lab concept was launched in 2015 by the Commercial Bank of Ceylon to stimulate and develop the mathematical and analytical skills of school children in Sri Lanka. Inspired by the results achieved by the ‘Math Lab’ concept pioneered at the Miyenakandura government school, Passara, by former teacher and innovative learning materials designer Hengodage Dharmasiri,the Commercial Bank initiative has so far benefitted approximately 5,000students across the country.

Sasnaka Sansada, the organising body of the recent math support program, is a forum of professionals in a social service organisation committed to uplift talents, develop skills and the giftedness of the children of Sri Lanka. Its “Sasnaka Sansada Ganitha Saviya” initiative is a successful national program aimed at reducing the level of failures in the Sri Lankan syllabus and improving the level of achievement in the mathematics field. In the past year, it has launched 150 math programs across Sri Lanka.