Teaching style ‘may hinder Irish maths students’
In the most recent Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests, an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) comparison of maths skills among 15-year-olds, Ireland was ranked 17th out of 29 countries with overall scores around the average mark.
But a survey of 856 maths teachers by the Educational Research Centre (ERC) at St Patrick’s College Dublin, found that their methods may have a major impact on their students’ performance.
