Project Maths wins students’ seal of approval

A TRIAL maths syllabus has been given the thumbs up by Leaving Certificate students.

Around 1,800 students at 24 schools spent the last two years learning part of the maths course through new teaching methods under the Project Maths programme, which will be used in all schools from September.

At St Patrick’s College, Gardiner’s Hill on Cork city’s northside, five of the 22 girls taking Leaving Certificate maths chose higher level maths – a far higher proportion than the one-in-six national average – and were pleased with Paper 2. It was the first examination of students taught the new statistics and geometry sections of the syllabus, with next year’s Junior Certificate students at the pilot schools taking the first exam for younger pupils in a year’s time.