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Projectmaths.com is a website dedicated to inform students, parents and teachers of the changes proposed by the state examinations commission (SEC) to the content and methods of teaching maths in Irish secondary schools.
The site is edited by John Brennan a teacher of 40 years experience teaching maths at all levels in secondary school. John is also and author of three solution books for both Junior and Leaving cert maths. He is at present senior maths teacher at Ballinteer Institute tuition centre in Dundrum Dublin 14. see leavingcert.ie
Projectmaths.com is anxious to hear from Teachers ,students and parents in the project maths schools.
Project maths is being introduced because of the low numbers (16%) taking higher leaving maths .The idea is that if you lower the standard and introduce project based learning you will somehow double the numbers doing higher level leaving cert maths.
The argument is fundamentally flawed for the following reasons:
(i) Dropping the standard will make us the laughting stock of the maths world
(ii)Project based learning has been discredited and dropped as a method of teaching in every country where it has been tried.
It is imperative that the rollout of project maths in all schools in Sept 2010 should be postponed!
