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    #182
    RealJohn
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    bowdenj wrote: »
    Also Ive 2 years maths complete so if anyone has had their DCU Biotechnology degree assessed before, do you know what modules I need to do... Ive already paid 200 euro for nothing so Im reluctant to pay another 200 to them again for Maths..

    Any info would be great, thanks!!!
    Don't know about Biotech in DCU but I have two years of (honours) maths in NUI, Galway as part of my chemistry degree and the TC don't recognise me as a maths teacher. I forget exactly how many credits it made up mind but I'd say you're out of luck unless you can do another year anyway.


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    #183
    doc_17
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    Did you not hear about the course run by the department (free) that will qualify existing teachers who are not qualified to teach Maths? They are being run locally all over ireland.


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    #184
    juneg
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    Armelodie wrote: »
    good to hear, maybe it was just a bad batch I was going through , is 12 x 12 still the limit these days?


    Oh yes, mostly we stick within the confines of the multiplication grid. Don't want to frighten the children with all those infinite numbers:D

    and the kids who are good at tables will rattle them off faster than we could!

    But the major difficulty is problem solving. It never seems to improve no matter what you throw at it.

    Kids are all playing mangahigh this week for maths week and competing against each other online


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    #185
    evolving_doors
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    doc_17 wrote: »
    Did you not hear about the course run by the department (free) that will qualify existing teachers who are not qualified to teach Maths? They are being run locally all over ireland.

    please do tell...


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    #186
    evolving_doors
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    juneg wrote: »


    Oh yes, mostly we stick within the confines of the multiplication grid. Don't want to frighten the children with all those infinite numbers:D

    and the kids who are good at tables will rattle them off faster than we could!

    But the major difficulty is problem solving. It never seems to improve no matter what you throw at it.

    Kids are all playing mangahigh this week for maths week and competing against each other online

    I suppose their still at the concrete stage...vygotsky/bruner or whatever his name was


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    doc_17
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    Armelodie wrote: »
    please do tell...

    http://www.ateci.ie/news/88-new-cpd-courses.html

    They have this running at several venues but think it started well ovr a month ago


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    #188
    Chris68
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    mtoutlemonde wrote: »
    IThere was a women from ncte and she said that they were developing a scratch module for ty. Scratch would be perfect for ty, I'd love to get the opportunity to do it.

    Lero run an annual Scratch competition. It was originally aimed at just TY, then extended to all secondary, even some national school competitors now. They also have a course to go with it, and a great workbook.

    http://www.scratch.ie/


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    #189
    RealJohn
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    doc_17 wrote: »
    Did you not hear about the course run by the department (free) that will qualify existing teachers who are not qualified to teach Maths? They are being run locally all over ireland.
    I know about it. I was already in the process of adding a maths qualification when they announced it. Oh well.


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    #190
    paul harry
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    no wonder mathematics at school is taught so poorly with attitudes like this! with people that never used the stuff and think they know better then the people that actually use it! Good help Ireland's future. Looks like a return to the land is the only option with 5 million mouths to feed!


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    #191
    evolving_doors
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    paul harry wrote: »
    no wonder mathematics at school is taught so poorly with attitudes like this! with people that never used the stuff and think they know better then the people that actually use it! Good help Ireland's future. Looks like a return to the land is the only option with 5 million mouths to feed!

    So your saying that students who aren't any good at maths are to be left working the family farm... Now that's progress... Theres more to life than maths you know


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