The Irish Times

The war on rote learning just doesn’t add up

Opinion: Can you teach skills without facts? For students to apply their skills to knowledge outside their experience, we have to teach that knowledge and encourage problem-solving ability based on facts

Mon May 11 2015 - 13:30

‘I’m useless at maths’ should never be a boast

We believe in the importance of literacy, but somehow it is seen as acceptable to be bad at mathematics. We need to push people beyond numeracy to the really exciting bits

Mon Feb 16 2015 - 12:00