Inside geography, science and business teachers, there is a maths teacher waiting to get out Newly qualified maths teacher Fiona Keary helps Our Lady of Mercy Secondary School Drimnagh students Jack ...

Maths Week, Ireland’s all-island festival of maths, will return from October 11 to 19, marking its 20th anniversary with its ...

UNIVERSITIES have dismissed proposals to re-introduce bonus points for honours Leaving Certificate maths. Awarding bonus points for maths would artificially increase the cut-off points levels for ...

Another of the big ones dropped today, as students sat down to take on Maths Paper 1. Here, Brian Scully and Jean Kelly, Mathematics teachers at The Institute of Education, give their reaction to the ...

This year, just 11,000 Leaving Cert students took honours mathematics, a subject required by most engineering and IT degree courses at third level. Ireland needs to produce 14,000 engineering and ...

For many of us it’s a badge of honour to declare: “I’m terrible at maths. I just don’t have the brain for it.” Yet, says Dr Pádraig Kirwan, head of Waterford Institute of Technology’s department of ...

Leading employers body IBEC has expressed concern at the decline in the number of Leaving Certificate students taking up higher level maths and science subjects. Its ICT Ireland division has proposed ...

A worrying trend has developed in the Irish education system over the last 10 years which could have serious consequences for the economy. In 1994, 84 per cent of those taking honours maths achieved ...