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Mathematics Education in Ireland In Ireland the study of mathematics is mandatory at primary school. At secondary school all students study the subject in junior cycle (to approx. age 15), while at senior cycle upwards of 86%1 of students study it and the vast majority of these take mathematics in the Leaving Certificate examination.
This article interrogates the extent to which the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) through its Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) influenced the development of Project Maths, a new second-level mathematics education policy in Ireland.
Ireland. It is the first study of its kind since the introduction of a new mathematics curriculum in Ireland in 2010. Using a large sample of 304 students, the data was analyzed for all students and also for students grouped by gender. The results of this study show high levels of student
aligned with the goals of the new mathematics curriculum in Ireland. In this paper, we analyse responses to a national survey of PDMT graduates in order to address the following research questions: (1) What beliefs about mathematics, and mathematics teaching and learning, are held by formerly out-of-field mathematics teachers who have completed the
In 2010 the Irish second level mathematics curriculum underwent a period of significant change when a new mathematics curriculum was introduced. Some preliminary research has been carried out into the impact, if any, that this mathematics curriculum is having on students mathematics performance which have suggested that students' procedural skills are declining year on year however their ...
In 2012 mathematics was assigned a special status within the Irish post-primary school curriculum with the introduction of a bonus points initiative (BPI). Students are now awarded additional credit in their upper post-primary school state examination results if they achieve a passing grade in mathematics at higher level.
Junior Cycle. The Junior Cycle ( Irish: An tSraith Shóisearach) is the first stage of the education programme for post-primary education within the Republic of Ireland. It is overseen by the Department of Education and the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA), and its terminal examination, the Junior Certificate, by the State ...
A study conducted by Hodgen and Askew (2007) of secondary school students demonstrated that mathematics is viewed less favourably than other subjects. Many students, both low and high attaining, perceive mathematics to be dull, boring, and irrelevant (Matthews and Pepper, 2006; Mujtaba et al., 2014; Smith, 2004).