Fijai Senior High School won the Valentine Day mathematics quiz competition organized by the Ghana Mathematics Society at Sekondi on Monday.
The school scored 37 points to beat Ghana Secondary Technical School which obtained 32 in a keenly contested quiz involving six schools in the Western Region.
The other competing schools were the Half Assini Senior High School which came third with 31 points followed by Baidoo Bonsu Senior High School, Archbishop Porter Girls Secondary School and Nkroful Agriculture Senior High school.
Mr. Ebenezer Otoo, a Lecturer at Takoradi Polytechnic and Regional Chairman of the Society, said February 14 every year has been set aside by the society to celebrate mathematics.
He said statistics continued to indicate that the level of familiarity with mathematics among students kept dropping and urgent measures must be adopted to whip up interest of students in the subject.
Mr. Otoo said the studying of mathematics must be encouraged as it was an important tool in solving teething development challenges.
Mr. Stephen Dandey, the regional organizer of the society and a teacher at the Half Assini Senior High School, called on the Ministry of Education to complement activities of the
society and other well meaning organizations to promote the subject.