Our maths problems don’t add up

OUR civilisation ‘rests’ on the ‘three Rs’.

Irish students excel at two, reading and writing, but are down the class for the third, arithmetic, or ‘sums’.

To prosper at science, we’ll have to pull up our numerical socks. A film with a mathematical theme was shown at the Science 2012 Festival last week. Fermat’s Room is a Spanish thriller directed by Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopeña.