Helpful hints ease sum of all fears in Leaving Cert maths papers
Robert Chaney of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) reported students finding yesterday morning’s higher and ordinary level papers easier than their first maths exams on Friday, helped by regular hints.
For ordinary-level students, it was made clear in one question that they could use a chart or charts to represent data from a statistical table, prompting them to realise they could make their points in more than one way.
