 Parents in Lagos have urged the federal government to incorporate the universal concept of mental arithmetic system UCMAS into the curriculum of education in all primary schools in Nigeria to boost the learning skills and ability and interest in mathematical solutions. The parents said this during the fourth UCMAS competition, which held at the University of Lagos. They said the introduction of the UCMAS scheme into primary schools across the country will enhance learning by students in primary and secondary schools. Speaking of the events, the country head of Māori education, Steven Ofori and UCMAS said UCMAS rather is a brain-development program for children between the ages of 5 and 14 years. The children are beginning to learn and then advance their thinking skills, creative skills and all those abilities in school. It would be hard to find children within that age gap staying home and not doing anything. Definitely they go through an education system. So that is how scientifically it is proven. That is to add by age 18 years about 86 percent of your child's brain might have formed already. So that's why we focus on that particular age so that we can be able to develop the child's brain together. Some of the children we have here have been on the program for about three, four years consistently and their parents are seeing results. That's the reason. What we've noticed is very sharp interest in mathematics and it affects every other aspect of maths. Their multiplication, their speed and it affects every other aspect because it is the basis. The UCMAS is built in such a way that children's speed and coordination and attention is already halved into very early on in life. So you see children as low as age three, age four, already interested in maths before you ask them multiplication questions they've answered and that's reduced into division into the challenges we had in secondary school for mathematics. These children are not going to have that problem. Now often we maintain that the basic nature of UCMAS is targeted at building children who have very weak concentration to enhance their problem solving skills. Meanwhile, parents who spoke with class degrees described UCMAS as innovative and a tool that will sharpen the learning skills of students. Children are quite interesting. Anything they see fascinating they want to get engaged in. So UCMAS is not like a written theoretical something, theoretical something. It's something we call, how do you call it, more of a practice ability. So it is self-engaging and fun. So children should be able to learn whilst having fun. That is the basic nature of UCMAS. We are targeting children who have very weak concentration. You know how concentration can affect a child's performance. Children who are very weak in memory skills. Children who want to develop their thinking skills. Children who want to develop their innate ability to be able to sharpen their, how do you call it, memorization skills, problem solving skills. Those are the particular children we focus on. So we believe that every child is born a genius. Through the right education, they can do better. It's actually a very beautiful program where children are trained, you know, because of course, you know, when you have to do with critical thinking skills, and then of course the mental alattness, okay, the readiness to give answers at the snap of a finger. It's just incredible. And so the display, the competition you're seeing happening right behind me is a testament to the fact that, you know, when you push children, that's when you train them, when you groom them, nothing is really impossible. It's like binary numbers, it's like computers, and if we want to change the educational sector in Nigeria, then we cannot continue to do things the way it's been done. We cannot use the methods we're using in our time for children to cramp instead of understanding the logic and the ideas about numbers. So, government should sit up, government should take the bull by the horn. Private schools are doing this. So what stops the other children from learning this? If they can start early, if they can be incorporated into the curriculum, then why are we waiting? Why do we have to wait for the whole world to go ahead and then we are lagging behind? If government can just consider imbibing it into a curriculum, all right, we spread across, and of course, what is good for the kids, we also will be good for the Uganda, eventually, and all Nigerian children will benefit because there's nothing like it when it comes to enhancing the brain, getting the mind ready, getting the mind active, you know, there's nothing like it. So there will be nothing, all right, that will be better than government giving it a thought, all right, giving it a thought in the aspect of inculcating it into our already existing curriculum. The UC mass is built in such a way that the children of speed and condition and attention are already locked into solving mathematical solutions as early as the age of three and four.