Pupils in Ireland among top maths performers in Europe, global study finds – Pupils in Ireland are among the best performers in maths across Europe but lag well behind top-achieving countries in east Asia, according to a new international study.

by caisdara

12 comments

  1. If one follows the logic that the current minister is responsible for everything, Norma Foley is apparently a visionary.

  2. Primary level Math here is very good. Strong foundation gives secondary something to build on

  4. >The study shows a dip in girls’ average performance levels in maths and science. Boys now significantly outperform girls in both subjects.

    Interesting one.

  5. But the teachers are all lazy cunts on career break ofc 🙄

  6. This is because they dumbed maths down in ireland about 25-30 years ago and they’ve been making it easier ever since.

    But we’re still doing well by European standards, which is worrying. But Asia is the what we should be comparing ourselves to

  7. Standard LC joke is Asian parents…. “How will we ever be able to show our faces again, 99%, where did the other 1% go”… Stereotypical but true

  8. “There are also significant gaps in achievement between Deis schools – typically based in more disadvantaged areas – and others”.

    After reading the article I am surprised that it’s so positive over all when clearly disadvantaged areas are being left behind… surely that’s not good

  9. I really don’t think we should look at those East Asian countries and their culture around education as something to emulate.

  10. Very interesting considering they’ve dumbed down the leaving cert in the last 10-15 years.

  11. Being declared as one of the in western Europe is like winning a beauty contest in the Burns unit of a hospital. It’s nice and all but I wouldn’t go shopping about it.
    For the most part the kids in Asia were learning hard maths with very limited stabilizer wheels. When they short have been learning the basics of maths and other stem subjects kids here or outside having climate protests or inside for something like drag queen story time!
    My examples are a bit worst case but you get my overall point. More kids learn in primary grade is often the foundations of what is to follow.
    Every year the syllabus keeps getting easier apparently due to automation making a lot of the calculations redundant, partly to accommodate newer teachers who don’t really know the stuff themselves.
    School should be for learning, just learning leaving all the political ideologies of the day at the gate.

  12. A small price to pay for letting them have an actual life.

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