 A collaboration between the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, OECS, the Ministry of Education and the Seapal Holdings has successfully secured 60 tablets, furnished with learning resources and content in the subject of mathematics. This handover signals the beginning of the pilot project called the Mathematics Remedial ConquerMouse Initiative, seeking to improve the levels of performance in mathematics among common entrance class groups. One class from the Nerozo RLC Combined Primary School and another from the Deny River Primary School will now utilize the UK-based ConquerMouse program to aid their instruction on the subject. Co-ordinator of ConquerMouse St. Lucia Gilbert-Gilbert-Jofoswa commended the Ministry of Education for embracing the use of technology to help combat lower performance levels in mathematics, stating that this online resource provides a holistic approach to teaching and learning the subject. ConquerMouse is an award-winning online resource for all ages and abilities designed to help students understand and master mathematics. The program breaks topics down into bite-sized lessons and uses videos that are not longer than 10 minutes to teach students concepts and show them how problems can be solved. Students can replay any part of a video as many times as they need in order to master the concept. At the end of each video, there is a question to assess the students' understanding of the topic and to give them an opportunity to practice the skills or principles they have learned. The 60 tablets were procured by the OECS and forms part of their 40th anniversary celebrations and social responsibility mandate. Director General of the OECS, Dr. Didikas Jules, who spoke at the handing over ceremony on the grounds of the Roscoe Combined School recently, said COVID-19 forced the educational system to shift into the digital setting and welcomed initiatives like these to incite and capture the attention of students. Dr. Jules said this model of education rests on four pillars, devices, internet, content, teacher preparation and support. How we engage you through the computer has to be something that really grabs your attention because I'm sure if I come on these devices this evening and tell you, let's play a game, all of you will be on and we'll be on the hours you'll want to be playing the game. So we have to change the approach to teaching and learning so that it will get you as excited about learning. So these are the things that we are working on and I'm really happy to be here to participate in this ceremony. Some of the team at the OECS have said we had adopted some schools even before my time in the Barbono district and the suggestion is that we should adopt this school here in Roscoe. The Licensing Fee for the ConkerMath software is sponsored by the kind patronage of CPAL Holdings, securing for a subscription of one year for students and teachers to utilize. Management Director of CPAL Holdings, Jenna Cipal, said the company was happy to give back through such an important initiative. Cipal Holdings, as Mr. Cyrus Cipal said, is a company that stemmed from this community right here and we are very proud that we can be part of this initiative along with ConkerMaths and OECS to be able to provide these tablets so that students can access that area of math that they would need to help build their strengths in that skill because we know that that math is a very tricky area or subject for a lot of students so I'm happy that we can be part of reaching out to these students. The Mathematics Remedial ConkerMath initiative is being rolled out as a mini-action research project to monitor and analyze the data of students using the program and will eventually be implemented and adopted island-wide. From the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Education, Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science, Technology and Vocational Training, I am Danielle Dubois reporting.