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In an exercise of this nature so many approaches to determine trends and best practices in education as bedrock for national development in Africa would have been postulated. Some may look at this from the views points of an idealist, whose concern is the training of the mind and liken it to a drum that need to be filled to the bream and then learning is said to have taken place and support subjects like the art and social sciences. Or the realist who look at the learner as a complete being that needed to be guided to discover the world himself, anything he can see makes sense and can be learnt, the unseen to him does not exist. Or the pragmatist who believes in the evolving man that need tochange subject to situations at hand.To the pragmatist the man is like a machine a machine if he is useful make use of him and if not replace him. Or theexistentialists who take concern on recognising theworth of one's existence before his relevance giving respect to man as the creation of God before ABSTRACT The study assessed the imbalances in teaching profession in both public and private Nursery and Primary Schools, Public Secondary schools in Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State to determine the percentage/ ratio of imbalance and its relationship to learning outcome in mathematics at the primary school level. The study employed the descriptive survey research design. The population of the study comprised of all the seventy public and private Nursery and Primary Schools and thirty two public Secondary Schools with six hundred and sixty teachers in Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State. The data generated were analysed using the chi-square statistics. The findings from the study revealed that there was significant gender imbalance in teaching profession in Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State. The worst hit is the public nursery and primary school with an imbalance percentage of 78.87% and 21.13% in favour of female teachers while the private schools have a percentage imbalance of 76.02% and 23.98% in favour of female teachers. The female pupils’ performance in mathematics was better than that of the male pupils. The study revealed that at the secondary school the imbalance was significant at the junior secondary school level and milled at the senior secondary. The study recommended the immediate reversal of the trend of imbalance by employing more male teachers into the public and private nursery and primary schools. This will improve the academic achievement of male pupils in mathematics, hence achieving the best practice in Nigeria education.

Gender Imbalance in Teaching Profession and Learning Outcome in Mathematics in Primary Schools in Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State