{"id":188960,"date":"2025-01-19T01:47:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T23:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-teacher-up-for-global-award-for-teaching-mathematics-in-local-language\/"},"modified":"2025-01-19T01:47:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T23:47:38","slug":"nigerian-teacher-up-for-global-award-for-teaching-mathematics-in-local-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-teacher-up-for-global-award-for-teaching-mathematics-in-local-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Teacher Up for Global Award for Teaching Mathematics in Local Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Global Teacher Prize was created to spotlight the critical role of education in addressing the major challenges of the world &#8211; from combating climate change to reducing inequality and navigating technological change<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">For his innovative teaching method of translating complex mathematical problems into local language, a Nigerian teacher, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/globalteacherprize.org\/news\/global-teacher-prize-finalists\/2025-finalists-global-teacher-prize\/1740\/1740-Kayode-Adewale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kayode Adewale<\/a><\/strong>, has emerged as one of the 50 finalists in the 2025 annual Global Teacher Prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Prize, organised by the Varkey Foundation in collaboration&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501170315.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Global Teacher Prize was created to spotlight the critical role of education in addressing the major challenges of the world &#8211; from combating climate change to reducing inequality and navigating technological change For his innovative teaching method of translating complex mathematical problems into local language, a Nigerian teacher, Kayode Adewale, has emerged as one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,5692,6212,9308,7823,32781,257,393,482,254,9245,9199],"class_list":["post-188960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-award","tag-global","tag-language","tag-local","tag-mathematics","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-south-africa-today","tag-teacher","tag-teaching"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}