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Maths Week 2025 Maths Eyes Competition Winners We received an excellent range of entries for 2025 Maths Eyes competition. The standard was high, and the judges were impressed with the quality and creativity of the submissions. Great job to everyone who submitted. Choosing the winners was a real challenge, [...]
Maths and Covid How does maths help in the fight against Covid? What does "flattening the curve" mean? What is an "R Number" ? Kayleigh Foran of the Maths Week team takes us through the Maths of Covid in this 30 min video. Target audience: Transition Year / GCSE and above. [...]
Statistics Lecturer Rafael De Andrade Moral receives Maths Week Ireland Award for Raising Public Awareness of Maths 20th October 2022: Maynooth University’s Statistics Lecturer Rafael De Andrade Moral has been honoured as this year’s recipient of the Maths Week Ireland Award for his contribution to Raising Public Awareness of Maths. The award is presented [...]
Maths Week Ireland takes place from 15 th – 23 rd October 2022 Thursday 22 nd September 2022: Maths Week 2022 was today launched by Minister for Education Norma Foley TD. Now in its 17 th year, the all-island festival of maths and numeracy kicks off on Saturday 15 th October [...]
Over 400 young people across the island of Ireland came together to open their Maths Eyes, in a competition for Maths Week which challenged participants to look at their surroundings and the world around them in a new and creative way. A final cohort of 22 shortlisted winners were selected by [...]
Maths and numbers are part of everyday life and there’s nothing scary about that. This was the message from pupils of Glasnevin Educate Together National School who held a Children’s Budget with Maths Week Ireland Co-ordinator Eoin Gill and a special guest visitor, Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe TD. Over 400,000 [...]
Renowned Irish comedian Dara Ó Briain has been honoured as the recipient of the 2021 Maths Week Ireland Award for his contribution to Raising Public Awareness of Maths. The award is presented once each year during Maths Week Ireland - the all-island festival of maths and numeracy (16th - 24th October). The [...]
Maths Week features in THE Awards Shortlist Waterford Institute of Technology has been shortlisted for the THE Awards (Times Higher Education Awards) in the Widening Participation and Outreach category. The THE Awards are widely known as the “Oscars of higher education”. The awards ceremony will be held in London on 25 [...]
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