Failure to grasp nettle on maths a national shame [Independent.ie]
- Published: 22 November 2011
If we are ever to extricate ourselves from our present difficulties and lay the foundations for a successful economy in the long term, we must solve what has come to be called the "maths crisis".
This problem is usually discussed in educational terms, but it is very much broader and deeper.
Nobody can fail to see the importance of maths in the education system.
In its development in the immediate future, the system must address as a matter of extreme urgency two related questions: the need to break away from rote learning and the centrality of mathematics to focused and independent thinking.
It is equally significant for the economy.
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