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Adults, Mathematics and Work From Research into Practice John J. Keogh, Theresa Maguire and John O’Donoghue Adults use mathematics extensively in work even though they may deny it or dismiss their numerate behaviour as common sense. Their capacity for mathematics is invisible to them and confirms their ‘non-maths person’ self-perception, which has negative consequences for their life choices. In Adults, Continue Reading

A pilot programme to help schools introduce coding at Junior Cycle is to be extended to a second phase from September 2019, Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh T.D. has announced. An interim review of the Junior Cycle Coding in Action initiative, published today, showed the positive impact of the initiative on the almost 50 post-primary schools involved in Continue Reading

On the 8th of March at the International Women’s Day conference held in the Bernal Institute on the University of Limerick campus, the 20 WiSTEM²D Team Project Award winners were presented with their awards. This awards presentation embraces the importance of the University of Limerick and Johnson and Johnson collaborative educational programme to support and encourage female students to pursue Continue Reading

On Monday 4th March 2019, Professor Diana Coben, PhD FRSA FHEA, Emeritus Professor of Adult Numeracy at King’s College London and Visiting Professor in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia, UK visited EPI•STEM, the national centre for STEM Education and gave a talk titled: Numeracy for Nursing: A challenge for safety-critical workplace mathematics. The seminar Continue Reading

Career Mathways Awards Night On February 26th 2019, EPISTEM hosted an awards night for the Career Mathways initiative which ran in six schools across Ireland from September 2018 until January 2019. Career Mathways was a novel and exciting, Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) funded project designed for Transition Year students. The project was designed by a team of mathematics education researchers Continue Reading

41 projects receive funding to improve public understanding of STEM and to support education initiatives for under-represented groups Minister for Training, Skills, Innovation, Research and Development, John Halligan TD, today announced a national investment of €3.6 million through Science Foundation Ireland’s Discover Programme. The funding has been awarded to 41 diverse projects, to improve public understanding of science, technology, engineering Continue Reading

The 30 students in this year’s WiSTEM2D Programme attended a career workshop in early February organised by the WiSTEM2D Co-Ordinator and the individual Award winners. The evening was a great success with the students and their mentors in great discussion on their career aspirations and what the next step for them is. Johnson and Johnson speakers on the night were Continue Reading

The 2018/19 WiSTEM2D Award winners attended Johnson and Johnson site visits in mid-January 2019. The girls thoroughly enjoyed their day and found many aspects of the site interesting. The students got a tour of Vision Care in Castletroy Limerick where contact lenses are produced. The students also visited EDC where there is a strong focus on IT. Most of the Continue Reading

Dr Ciara Lane attended the recent Eleventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME 11) in Utrecht, The Netherlands. She participated in the Thematic Working Group 26: Mathematics in the Context of STEM. Ciara presented on a project she is working on with Dr Gráinne Walshe to investigate the mathematical preparedness of first year students for Continue Reading

The Irish Mathematical Trust, with support from SFI, EPISTEM and the University of Limerick, is currently recruiting students for the Junior Mathematics Enrichment (JME) programme. The JME programme aims to offer students a wider perspective on Mathematics and its role in life and society, while developing their problem solving skills in an environment centred on the enjoyment of investigation and Continue Reading