MATHS – the word strikes fear into the hearts of millions of us, but there’s really nothing to be scared of. After all, everyone uses maths every day, when it comes to work, paying the bills or ...

A PROGRAMME to address the crisis in maths at second-level schools is to be announced later today by the Department of Education. The move comes amid controversy about the large number of maths ...

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If Nintendo really wants to improve people's lives they should forget about Brain and Sight and Face Training. Much more useful would be Lifestyle Training, a game that teaches you how to live and ...

Training early years practitioners in maths skills could reduce the attainment gap among disadvantaged young children and their peers, evaluation of a teaching programme suggests. The programme sees ...

A Fingal Community College student has been selected to take part in an exclusive maths training programme, writes CATHERINE REILLY. Now Adrian Carroll, of River Valley, Swords, is one of an elite ...

Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn said this week he would like to see a requirement for student teachers to take higher-level maths at Leaving Certificate level, provoking an angry response from ...

TEACHERS from across the North Cork region have come together to highlight the importance of maths and science to the school curriculum. More than 50 teachers from primary and second level school took ...

Over 70 math teachers from primary schools in the United Kingdom arrived Monday, November 7 at Shanghai Normal University, at the start of a third period of a teaching and learning maths exchange ...