Dumbed down curriculum

IN 40 years of teaching maths to Leaving Certificate students, John Brennan, of the Ballinteer Institute, thought he had seen it all.

Then, this year’s Project Maths ordinary-level paper II arrived on the scene.

Question 1 on the paper perplexed him: “Four paragraphs of English, the only figures associated with the question was the number of the question and the number of marks that could be awarded. This is Projects Maths gone mad.