{"id":428,"date":"2012-07-08T19:47:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T19:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/maths-report-a-cause-for-concern-deputy-sean-crowe\/"},"modified":"2012-07-08T19:47:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T19:47:25","slug":"maths-report-a-cause-for-concern-deputy-sean-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/maths-report-a-cause-for-concern-deputy-sean-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Math\u2019s Report a cause for concern \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Math\u2019s Report a cause for concern \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe
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Sinn F\u00e9in Education Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe, TD, commenting on the findings of a Report published today by the National Competitiveness Council into the teaching of maths said:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Report by The National Competitiveness Council (NCC) is timely and presents a number of very worrying findings. A big concern is that current standards of Irish students are well below those of their contemporaries in other developed countries. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Report also highlights concerns about the country’s future competitiveness and controversially blames uninspiring teaching, a lack of application and the CAO (<\/span>Central Applications Office)<\/span> points system for the maths crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIts findings seem to confirm the trend identified in Ireland\u2019s global PISA standings that between 2000 and 2009 showed a marked drop in standards from 15th to 25th in Maths. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf Education Minister Ruair\u00ed Quinn is serious about improving numeracy standards then he must take stock of the report\u2019s recommendations, which include the setting of new increased \u00a0targets for the number of students sitting higher level maths in the Leaving Certificate.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe must also exam the proposal that Maths be a required subject for entry to a College course and that it should be included among the six subjects counted for the CAO<\/span> <\/span>points purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe problems experienced recently by students taking the Project Maths exam must also be addressed. One positive development is the fact that further training has been given to Mathematics teachers and the Primary Teacher training course is to be increased from three to four yours, with a focus on numeracy skills.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Minister is also consulting with Universities on changes to the points system and is expecting a report shortly. Another worrying outcome that has emerged is that the present system will take between five to ten years to fully implement.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMaths is a vitally important subject that is an important driver in Ireland’s future competitiveness and lessons need to be learnt from this latest report in order to improve its future delivery within the Irish school curriculum.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n


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Math\u2019s Report a cause for concern \u2013 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe Sinn F\u00e9in Education Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe, TD, commenting on the findings of a Report published today by the National Competitiveness Council into the teaching of maths said: \u201cThe Report by The National Competitiveness Council (NCC) is timely and presents a number of very worrying findings. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}