Todays Jamaica Gleaner newspaper carries a feature on Claude Evans, a man who would like to use dancehall music to help teach mathematics, with specific focus on multiplication and timetables. He said dancehall is so prevalent in the society, so I thought we could use dancehall music to teach one of the basic concepts (of math). Most Jamaicans have learnt their timetable and the days in each month by song. We sing our ABCs to remember the alphabet itself and to remember the order of the alphabet when we file something or use a telephone directory, and we sing or recite poems.

With this in mind, he says he hopes popular artistes in the industry will sing the timetable on riddimms that children are familiar with. So far, he said Queen Ifrica and Tony Rebel have agreed to work on the project and he left a CD for Stephen McGregor to hear. See the full feature on the Gleaners website.