How to bridge our maths and science gap

THE annual post-Leaving Certificate hand-wringing is now under way regarding poor results and general lack of interest in science and mathematics.

Many theories will be offered to explain this lack followed by the announcement of grandiose, complicated and usually very expensive plans to correct this problem.

However, unless we build user-friendly, hands-on science centres to attract and engage children from their earliest years, then all such plans will fail.