News March 2010

Content Knowledge Courses for Probability & Statistics: Strand 1

15 March 2010

The Project Maths Development Team in collaboration with the National Centre of Excellence in Maths and Science Teaching and Learning in the University of Limerick, have trained Local Facilitators to provide workshops on Strand 1: Probability & Statistics.

The workshops will focus on new elements of the course, methodology and the use of information technology. They will cover topics from Junior Certificate (all levels) and Leaving Certificate (Ordinary Level) Probability & Statistics and progress to Leaving Certificate Higher Level topics such as Conditional Probability, the Binomial and Normal Distributions.

These courses will commence in April 2010. Click here to see a list of dates and venues.

 

ICT and Maths

03 March 2010

Now Available

The ICT & Maths course is accepting enrolments in Education Centres throughout the country. The PMDT has collaborated with the NCTE to provide these courses which will show you how you can use readily available software in your classroom to teach geometry, trigonometry and statistics for both Junior and Leaving Certificate.

The courses will begin in late March 2010 - early April. Click here for more details on course content and commencement dates in a centre/school near you. We hope you will come along to these courses.