Mathematics Education for Sustainable Development: Implications for Scientific and Technological Literacy

Abstract

This paper seeks to investigate and thoroughly examine mathematics education for sustainable
development using the ambit of scientific and technological literacy. The obvious importance of
mathematics in facilitating scientific and technological development in the ‘developed’, ‘developing’ and
‘under-developed’ nations of the world are quite glaring. This paper therefore considered mathematics
education in relation to the sustenance of scientific and technological development in Nigeria. Issues such
as the political implications of mathematics education and the social implications of mathematics
education were delved into. This paper also discussed the principles behind the actualization of scientific
and technological literacy using mathematics education as a focal point. Hence, suggestions on how
mathematics education could be improved by both the Federal government and other agencies were given.
Recommendations on how attendant problems in mathematics education could be solved were proffered.