Casio Sponsors Mathematics Departmental Heads Forum - Al Baha

The activities of the Forum of Mathematics Departmental Heads have been launched during the period 22 – 25 November 2015 in Al Baha. The forum witnessed the participation of 100 male and female mathematics supervisors representing 45 kingdom wide educational departments and the presence of Mr. Saeed bin Mohamed Mukhayesh the Director General of Al Baha Education Department, Mr. Abdulla bin Nasser Al Shalfan the Head of the Mathematics Department in the General Management of Education Supervision – Riyadh, Mr. Ahmed Abdul Kareem Al Tuhami the Manager of the Education Supervision Department – Al Baha district and a number of mathematics specialists from within and outside the district.  In his speech at the forum Mr. Mukhayesh referred to the importance of supervision role, being the cornerstone of performance quality, which involves and forms the base of most of the divisions and departments in the educational arena. Mr. Mukhayesh highlighted the necessity of keeping up with the changes and rapid development of modern education in all fields as well as using the means of modern technology appropriately to achieve the positive output for learners. 

The forum witnessed many presentations and papers delivered by mathematics teachers and supervisors stressing their leading role in developing the educational process by keeping abreast of modern means and methods in education.

As the forum’s main information partner, Abbar Company, the approved agent for Casio - the world’s leader of calculators - products in the kingdom has contributed to the forum signaling the importance of strengthening the community partnership. The company’s contribution is seen as a means to support the education development from a distinguished partner for keeping abreast with the educational programs. It is worth to mention that Casio has launched the world’s first Arabic supported scientific calculator “CLASS WIZ”, following its pattern of introducing modern products that correspond and match the development of education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The “CLASS WIZ” standard calculator, which has been launched recently, reaped the admiration of the forum’s attendees, thanks to its mathematical functions that are recommended by the experiences of other countries to facilitate the understanding of mathematics.