THE launch of an ambitious high schools maths, science and commerce improvement project in Soweto at the weekend has been likened to sharpening an axe to easily cut a tree, writes Victor Mecoamere.

THIS YEAR sees the first outing of a complete State exam in project maths. Revised syllabuses for maths are being introduced across the State, and the programme is under way in 24 pilot schools ...

MORE than 4,000 students failed Leaving Cert maths this year, but the new approach to teaching the subject has produced some promising results. Tuesday, 3 December 2024. ePaper; Puzzles; ...

Class 9 Maths Project Ideas 2024-25 For Summer Vacation. ... You can also create puzzles with missing side lengths in right triangles for classmates to solve using the theorem.

Sir, – Project Maths is not the problem. The “dumbing down” of maths was happening well before the launch of Project Maths. Questions were appearing on the Leaving Cert higher paper in 2008/ ...

Now it could be that they share the same environment, so they're all doing maths puzzles and games, but it could also be that there's something genetic or to do with the make-up of the brain.

The Every Child Counts project, which offers specialist maths tuition to low-achieving six- and seven-year-olds, is to be expanded. About 2,600 pupils have already received tuition through a pilot of ...

" We need initiatives such as Aims, where African students will learn to be first-rate researchers, to provide beacons drawing our children into maths and science at school," he said. The project is ...