Maths: what do you think when you see the word?, asks Colm O'Regan.

If you appeared on 'Are You Smarter Than A 10 Year Old?', you wouldn't want to go up against Charley Thomas.

More students are taking higher level Irish, English and maths at Leaving Cert level since the introduction of a new grading system in June 2017.

There is a widespread perception that mathematics is inaccessible, and ultimately boring., writes Sue Johnston-Wilder and Davide Penazzi.

There may still be a chance for Ireland to bring home the gold from Russia this summer.

One in five second-level students is being taught maths by a teacher whose main area of study was in a different subject, research shows.

One in three adults struggle with basic maths tasks such as working out change on a shopping trip, according to a new study.

There has been a significant drop in the number of students choosing third-level courses in computing, maths and physics-based sciences this year.

Education Minister Richard Bruton expects plans being launched today to make Ireland’s teaching of science and technology the best in Europe.

Junior Certificate students will no longer be asked in exams to prove Pythagoras’ or anybody else’s theorems under a revised junior cycle maths course.

Children’s progress in maths at the age of nine has a major influence through to Junior Certificate preparations and suggests a need to overhaul how it is taught at primary level, a leading education researcher says.

How do we encourage young girls to pursue careers in STEM? Andrea Mara meets the women who think they’ve found the answer. 

A review of the controversial Project Maths curriculum is to examine how it affects student performance on third-level courses with a high maths content.

If you’d love to help your secondary school children with their maths homework but you’re not too confident about your own ability, help may be at hand.

The maths curriculum being taught in schools here is leaving students without the basic skills for the higher- level paper and unprepared for entering third-level education, an expert report has found.

Playing computer games is affecting children's maths and reading skills according to a new study.

A student who scored 100% in each of her six mathematics exams will study in her home city - after being turned down by Oxford University.

Monday morning brought the fourth day of exams with Maths Paper 2 on the agenda for Leaving Cert students.

The first maths exams, dreaded by so many students each year, brought the first week of the 2016 State exams to a close.

Certainly beats an apple anyway.

He is bloody brilliant.

Meet five-year-old Luis Esquivel, he’s become a little star after a rather memorable appearance on US TV.

The Romanian soccer team came up with an innovative way to encourage maths learning in the nation’s schoolchildren.

Back in your school days, you probably studied English, maths and science.

Thinking outside the box is a characteristic that is invaluable as you get older and if this kid keeps it up he’ll be working for Google in a few years making stuff happen.

It’s all about making it count — and a national school teacher is doing just that with her new maths board game, which hits the shelves of major toys stores today.

Some 200 schoolchildren from around the Cork region will go to college tomorrow to extract DNA from strawberries, study robotics, solve giant puzzles — and learn that maths and science are cool.

Put those thinking caps on?

The Minister for Education Jan O'Sullivan has said she will keep the maths results in the Leaving Cert under review.

Almost 800 students who attempted higher-level Leaving Certificate maths in search of the bonus college entry points have failed the subject.

A maths teacher from Dublin is in with chance to win a major investment from Richard Branson.

A water tank featured on both the higher and ordinary level Junior Certificate maths exam.

Following a tough ordinary level maths paper on Friday for most Leaving Certificate students, reaction seemed much more positive to yesterday morning’s paper 2.

This is a tough one - get the calculators ready.