MATHEMATICS EDUCATION: A TOOL FOR RECREATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

This paper examined how mathematics education can raise business awareness by equipping the youths with creative skills acquisition, self-reliance, and employment generation and also by teaching and engaging them with mathematical modelling games for recreation with the aim of reducing, if not totally eradicating, youth restlessness that usually leads to vices like armed robbery, kidnapping, and political thuggery, with their attendant insecurities, disunity, and underdevelopment of the nation's economy . This paper recommends, among other things, the involvement of mathematicians in the training of youths in some practical mathematical concepts as a means of improving their (youth) acquisition of basic skills for both sustainability and recreational activities.