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align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #ABDAEF;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #4721DC;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 18px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <span style=\"font-size:26px\"><strong>JUNE 2021<\/strong><\/span>\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/td>\n                                        <\/tr>\n                                    <\/table>\n                                    <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]>\n                                    <\/td>\n                                    <\/tr>\n                                    <\/table>\n                                    <![endif]-->\n                                <\/td>\n                            <\/tr>\n                            <tr>\n                                <td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" id=\"templateBody\" data-template-container=\"\" style=\"background:#FFFFFF none no-repeat center\/cover;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;background-color: #FFFFFF;background-image: none;background-repeat: no-repeat;background-position: center;background-size: cover;border-top: 0;border-bottom: 0;padding-top: 42px;padding-bottom: 42px;\">\n                                    <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]>\n                                    <table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n                                    <tr>\n                                    <td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n                                    <![endif]-->\n                                    <table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"templateContainer\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;max-width: 600px !important;\">\n                                        <tr>\n                                            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"bodyContainer\" style=\"background:transparent none no-repeat center\/cover;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;background-color: transparent;background-image: none;background-repeat: no-repeat;background-position: center;background-size: cover;border-top: 0;border-bottom: 0;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;\"><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #ABDAEF;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1745266\" height=\"272\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/_compresseds\/8e798b9d-6eb5-78f1-5a6c-36ac44b502e4.jpeg\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 400px;height: 272px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"400\"><br>\n<br>\n<span style=\"color:#0000FF\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:18px\">Hello and welcome to the June edition of the\u00a0Maths Week Newsletter<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br>\n<br>\nJune is the sixth month of the year in our\u00a0Gregorian calendars, it contains the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the day with the most daylight hours, and the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere,\u00a0with the fewest daylight hours. June is thought to be named after Juno, the Roman goddess of marriage.<br>\n<br>\nMaths Week 2021 will run from 16-24 October, put it in your diary for next term!<br>\nIf there's anything you would like to see in our newsletter, or if you have something you'd like to share, please drop an email to mathsweek@wit.ie with the subject 'NEWS'\u00a0 You can share this newsletter with your friends or colleagues using the links below and there's always lots to see and do\u00a0on our website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathsweek.ie\/2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">mathsweek.ie<\/span><\/a><br>\n<br>\nOur digital engagement manager, <strong>Ben Dolan <\/strong>is moving on to pastures new. Ben has been a key member of the Maths Week team and core to our move online during Covid. Although more often behind the camera (or Zoom) many of you will have met him virtually. He composed much of the Newsletters\u00a0 over the last few years.\u00a0\u00a0He leaves us with a much greater capacity in the online space. He is moving onto an Arts project and we wish him the very best there.\u00a0\u00a0<br>\nBen adds: \"It has been my pleasure to contribute and sometimes\u00a0edit this monthly newsletter over the last few years. I got a great satisfaction from finding what's going on in the world of Maths and bringing it to our loyal following.\"<br>\nBest of luck, Ben.<br>\n<br>\n<font color=\"#ff0000\" face=\"comic sans ms, marker felt-thin, arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:24px\"><em>Eoin<\/em><\/span><\/font><br>\nEoin Gill,\u00a0<br>\nCoordinator, Maths Week<br>\n<br>\nA parting puzzle from Ben:<br>\nHave a look at this simple maths problem I spotted on Belfast Live which has divided (forgive the pun!) the\u00a0internet on what is the correct answer (or answers! ;)) It just goes to show that there can be more to maths than meets the eye!\u00a0<br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1745270\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/6f66049c-877f-0c83-ff03-f6de12f7774e.png\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 400px;height: 391px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"400\"><br>\nIs the answer 1 or 16?<br>\nSee <a href=\"#Bodmas answer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">below for discussion<\/a>.<\/div>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnShareBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    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valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n              \t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n\t\t\t    \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #757575;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n                        \n                            <h3 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #444444;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><br>\n<span style=\"color:#B22222\">In this issue:<\/span><\/h3>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><a href=\"#Education Award\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Maths Week Wins Education Award<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><a href=\"#Culture\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Maths and our Culture<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><a href=\"#STEMreach\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">STEMreach<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><a href=\"#SCHOOLS NEWS\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Schools News<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><a href=\"#Maths Resources\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Maths Resources<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><a href=\"#Hamilton Way\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Hamilton Way<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><a href=\"#JUNIOR CYCLE TALKS\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Junior Cycle Talks<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><a href=\"#What's on?\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">What\u2019s on<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\"><a href=\"#DCBeagle\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">DCBeagle challenges<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #644877;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <span style=\"font-size:24px\">Maths Week Wins Best Education Outreach Award!<\/span>\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"300\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentColumn\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #E0D1F6;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br>\n<span style=\"font-size:28px\"><strong><a id=\"Education Award\" name=\"Education Award\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><\/a><br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1745282\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/_compresseds\/aed0a22c-77ef-b74d-51d5-6e896e0d6714.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 300px;height: 449px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"300\"><\/strong><\/span><br>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"300\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentColumn\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #E0D1F6;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <h3 style=\"text-align: left;display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #444444;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #444444;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\">Maths Week was\u00a0recognised at the recent\u00a0Education Awards in Dublin for Maths at Home and Maths Week Campaigns during Covid.\u00a0<br>\nThe prize was awarded to Calmast\u00a0STEM Engagement Centre in Waterford Institute of Technology the coordinators of Maths Week. On receiving the award, Dr Sheila Donegan paid tribute to all the partners, schools and teachers that make Maths Week a world leader.\u00a0<\/span><br>\n<br>\nRead the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathsweek.ie\/2021\/calmast-wins-best-education-outreach-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">here:<\/a><\/h3>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #DADADA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #484848;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size:32px\"><a id=\"Culture\" name=\"Culture\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><\/a>Math and our Culture<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br>\nTwo events coming this month celebrate maths in our culture. <strong>\"Heaventree of Stars\" <\/strong>celebrates Maths, Astronomy and other STEM in <strong>James Joyce's Ulysses<\/strong>. This is the third annual event forming part of the <strong>Bloomsday Festiva<\/strong>l hosted by DIAS at Dunsink Observatory with the James Joyce Centre, Joyceborough and Maths Week.\u00a0<br>\n<br>\n<strong>10\/06\/2021<br>\nTHE HEAVENTREE OF STARS -DUNSINK OBSERVATORY<\/strong><br>\n<strong><img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1745130\" height=\"359\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/04edfab2-fedd-6ea7-2ed0-55b90f5464c3.jpeg\" style=\"border: 0px initial;width: 350px;height: 359px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"350\"><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<em>\u201cThere will be a total eclipse this year: autumn some time. Now that I come to think of it that ball falls at Greenwich time. It\u2019s the clock is worked by an electric wire \u2026\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br>\nUlysses, James Joyce<br>\n\u00a0<br>\nOn Thursday 10th June at 19:30 there\u2019s a very special Joycean evening of readings, discussion, and music on the day of a partial solar eclipse!<br>\n\u00a0<br>\nThe Heaventree of Stars is a Bloomsday celebration of astronomy, maths, music, and science in Ulysses. The event will be run virtually this year and include readings by researchers from DIAS Astronomy and Astrophysics Section and Maths Week's Eoin Gill among a \"stellar\" lineup. Full programme is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunsink.dias.ie\/heaventree-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/a>.<br>\n\u00a0<br>\nThe evening will be run virtually on Zoom. Tickets are free but must be booked beforehand through Eventbrite as places are limited (one ticket per Zoom connection): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ie\/e\/157683302001\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ie\/e\/157683302001<\/a><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<strong>26\u00a0 June 2021<br>\nRobert Boyle Summer School<\/strong><br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1745406\" height=\"419\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/84e95b3d-c4a3-7c52-1d39-ab7bc16ff417.png\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 400px;height: 419px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"400\"><br>\n<br>\nThe 9th Robert Boyle Summer School will take place on the\u00a026 June 2021<br>\nThis year the theme is \u201cWomen in STEM: past, present and future\u201d.<br>\nDue to Covid-19 restrictions, it will take place online.\u00a0<br>\nThe school will celebrate the achievements of women in the history of science before exploring issues for women in STEM today and into the future.<br>\nSpeakers include<br>\nProfessor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell FRS<br>\nDr Michelle Di Meo who's biography of Lady Ranelagh has just been published.\u00a0<br>\nThere will be a feature about women in Irish Mathematics as part of the programme.\u00a0<br>\nThe programme is free. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertboyle.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">www.robertboyle.ie<\/span><\/a> for more<\/div>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"min-width: 100%;padding: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                <table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-top: 2px solid #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        <td style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                            <span><\/span>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n<!--            \n                <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 18px;\">\n                <hr class=\"mcnDividerContent\" style=\"border-bottom-color:none; 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The problem solving module is very popular with maths teachers.\u00a0It will be delivered remotely in the Autumn term, so schools anywhere might be interested to participate. Calmast would also welcome enquires from schools in Northern Ireland.\u00a0\u00a0<br>\nSTEMreach connects higher education, industry, governmental and non-governmental bodies with primary and post-primary schools and wider society and is designed to benefit educational attainment, economy and culture in the region.<br>\nIf you are interested in getting involved with STEMreach for TY in the new academic year please email calmast@wit.ie<br>\nFind out more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.calmast.ie\/stemreach-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">https:\/\/www.calmast.ie\/stemreach-2\/<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                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collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        <td style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                            <span><\/span>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n<!--            \n                <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 18px;\">\n                <hr class=\"mcnDividerContent\" style=\"border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;\" \/>\n-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n              \t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n\t\t\t    \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #757575;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n                        \n                            <h3 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #444444;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\"><strong><a id=\"SCHOOLS NEWS\" name=\"SCHOOLS NEWS\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><\/a>Schools News<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #2B6681;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1745086\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/81facf93-7625-4d76-af03-3db7cba64e44.jpeg\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 400px;height: 225px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"400\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size:26px\">NI exams:<\/span><\/strong><br>\n\u00a0<br>\nNI Education Minister Peter Weir has announced a return to public examinations in 2022 \u2014 but students will have significantly fewer to sit. \u201cA planned return to public examinations is not, however, a return to business as usual,\u201d Mr Weir told the Assembly, but added that \u201cyoung people will have significantly fewer examinations in 2022\u201d with \u201csignificant reductions in assessment across the range of CCEA qualifications.\u201d However, AS grades given to pupils this summer will not count towards their A level grade in 2022.<br>\n\u00a0<br>\nAS and A-level results will be released on 10 August and GCSE results on 12 August 2021.<br>\n\u00a0<br>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size:26px\">RoI exams:<\/span><\/strong><br>\n<br>\nThe Leaving Cert starts on Wed. June 9th with English Paper 1 and Home Economics.\u00a0<br>\nLeaving certificate Maths Paper 1\u00a0 is on Friday 11th and Maths Paper 2 is on Monday 14th.<br>\n\u00a0\u00a0<br>\n<br>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size:26px\">RoI Primary schools:<\/span><br>\n<br>\nSummer provision-<\/strong><br>\n\u00a0<br>\nMinister for Education Norma Foley TD and Minister of State with responsibility for Special Education Josepha Madigan TD have announced the provision of expanded summer education programmes for pupils with complex special educational needs and those at greatest risk of educational disadvantage, as a Covid-19 pandemic response measure, for summer 2021.<br>\n\u00a0<br>\nThe total funding available to provide the programme is up to \u20ac40 million, a one hundred per cent increase on the allocation for summer provision in 2020.<br>\n\u00a0<br>\nThe five key strands of the programme will run, as follows:<br>\n\u00a0\n<ul>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">Numeracy and literacy camps in DEIS primary schools<\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">School based summer programme in primary schools with special classes and special schools.<\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">Home based provision for children with complex needs where no school based programme is available<\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">All primary schools (DEIS and non DEIS) have the opportunity to provide a two-week summer programme for mainstream pupils with complex needs and those at greatest risk of educational disadvantage.<\/li>\n\t<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">All post-primary schools (DEIS and non DEIS) have the opportunity to provide a two-week summer programme for mainstream students with complex needs and those at greatest risk of educational disadvantage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0<br>\nThe programmes for mainstream students in primary and post-primary schools are new programmes for 2021, building upon previous summer programmes in DEIS schools and the programmes for pupils with special educational needs last year.<br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<br>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #E0629A;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1741317\" height=\"121\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/b0c6c62b-eb4b-4331-bda0-e459e354f6c6.png\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 300px;height: 121px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"300\"><br>\n<br>\n<span style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Friday Fun \u2013\u00a0 New TargetBoards<\/strong><\/span><br>\nWe launched a Spring Targetboards campaign back in January which ran for 16 weeks. Since it ended we have had a number of requests from teachers for more Targetboards. So, we have created a Summer Campaign which will run until the end of June. If your class participated in the Spring Campaign, your registration should still work for the new games. If you didn't participate in the Spring Campaign, don't worry, registration is easy. Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathsweek.ie\/2020\/targetboard-instructions-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Targetboards page<\/a>\u00a0 to find out more.\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #E0629A;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <span style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong>Targetboards Summer 2021 Campaign Leaders<\/strong><\/span><br>\nWeekly leader boards can be still found by going to\u00a0<br>\nhttps:\/\/www.mathsweek.ie\/2020\/targetboard-instructions-2020\/\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"300\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentColumn\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #E0629A;border: 5px dotted #FFFFFF;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h3 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #444444;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\">Junior Leader Board<\/h3>\n<br>\nSt Teresa\u2019s NS (1336)<br>\n5th class (Mrs Farrell)<br>\n<br>\nScoil \u00c9inne an Spid\u00e9al (20)<br>\nRang a 4 (Caitr\u00edona)<br>\n<br>\nSt Patrick's NS (8)<br>\nMs Griffin's 6th Class (Ms G)<br>\n<br>\nGaelscoil Chaladh an Treoigh (1)<br>\nRang IV na Sionainne (Caoimhe U\u00ed Niocl\u00e1s)<\/div>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"300\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentColumn\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #E0629A;border: 5px dotted #FFFFFF;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h3 style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #444444;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;\">Senior Leader Board<\/h3>\n<br>\nGaelscoil Chaladh an Treoigh (213)<br>\nRang IV na Sionainne (Caoimhe U\u00ed Niocl\u00e1s)<br>\n<br>\nCloverfield NS (22)<br>\nRanganna 5 & 6 (Noreen O'Dea)<br>\n<br>\nSt Teresa\u2019s NS (15)<br>\n5th class (Mrs Farrell)<\/div>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"min-width: 100%;padding: 18px 18px 36px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                <table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-top: 2px solid #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        <td style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                            <span><\/span>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n<!--            \n                <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 18px;\">\n                <hr class=\"mcnDividerContent\" style=\"border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;\" \/>\n-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #404040;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <h1 style=\"display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 40px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color:#FFFF00\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1745418\" height=\"328\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/8809ba59-1989-728f-5d51-0c9ec79da18d.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 500px;height: 328px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"500\"><\/span><\/h1>\nThe Irish government has just launched plans to stimulate a national conversation on research and science.\u00a0\n\n<p style=\"color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;line-height: 150%;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/creatingourfuture.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Creating our Future<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0aims to build on the success of research and science in our battle against Covid-19 and ask the public how we can shape a better Ireland through research and science.The conversation will begin in July and will run until November and will be overseen by an Advisory Forum, which was convened yesterday by Minister Simon Harris.\u00a0<br>\n<br>\nThe programme will be managed by SFI and we would encourage people to get involved and in particular would urge people to voice the importance of mathematics and its applications.\u00a0<br>\n<br>\nSee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfi.ie\/research-news\/news\/creating-our-future\/index.xml\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">here for more details<\/a><\/p>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n              \t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n\t\t\t    \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #757575;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;\">\n                        \n                            <div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong><a id=\"Maths Resources\" name=\"Maths Resources\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n<h1 class=\"null\" style=\"text-align: left;display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 40px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size:24px\"><span style=\"color:#B22222\"><strong>Maths\u00a0Resources<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #F7F7F7;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1745410\" height=\"219\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/6e17f7cd-dba9-76ac-ddb6-672ed1ccdc23.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px initial;width: 600px;height: 219px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"600\"><br>\n<br>\nThe 24th Maths Ireland Blog celebrating mathematical people associated with various counties, North and South, features <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathsireland.ie\/blog\/2021_04_cm\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">County Offaly.<\/a><br>\nOther areas covered\u00a0are:<br>\n<a data-linktype=\"external\" data-val=\"http:\/\/www.mathsireland.ie\/blog\/2017_06_cm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mathsireland.ie\/2017_06_cm\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Donegal<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0<a data-linktype=\"external\" data-val=\"http:\/\/www.mathsireland.ie\/blog\/2017_08_cm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mathsireland.ie\/2017_08_cm\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Wexford<\/a>,\u00a0<a data-linktype=\"external\" data-val=\"http:\/\/www.mathsireland.ie\/blog\/2017_10_cm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mathsireland.ie\/2017_10_cm\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Armagh<\/a>,\u00a0<a data-linktype=\"external\" data-val=\"http:\/\/www.mathsireland.ie\/blog\/2017_12_cm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mathsireland.ie\/2017_12_cm\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Limerick<\/a>,\u00a0<a data-linktype=\"external\" data-val=\"http:\/\/www.mathsireland.ie\/blog\/2018_02_cm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mathsireland.ie\/2018_02_cm\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Westmeath<\/a>,\u00a0<a data-linktype=\"external\" data-val=\"http:\/\/www.mathsireland.ie\/blog\/2018_04_cm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mathsireland.ie\/2018_04_cm\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Mayo<\/a>,\u00a0<a data-linktype=\"external\" data-val=\"http:\/\/www.mathsireland.ie\/blog\/2018_06_cm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mathsireland.ie\/2018_06_cm\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Belfast<\/a>,\u00a0<a data-linktype=\"external\" data-val=\"http:\/\/www.mathsireland.ie\/blog\/2018_08_cm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mathsireland.ie\/2018_08_cm\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Wicklow<\/a>,\u00a0<a data-linktype=\"external\" data-val=\"http:\/\/www.mathsireland.ie\/blog\/2018_10_cm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mathsireland.ie\/2018_10_cm\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Kerry<\/a>,\u00a0<a data-linktype=\"external\" data-val=\"http:\/\/www.mathsireland.ie\/blog\/2018_12_cm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mathsireland.ie\/2018_12_cm\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Galway<\/a>,\u00a0<a data-linktype=\"external\" 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valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px 18px;color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\" width=\"528\">\n            <div style=\"text-align: center;\"><font color=\"#0000cd\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>The Primary Planet\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/font><br>\n<strong>Mental Maths Challenge<\/strong><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Right, it's time for the MENTAL MATHS CHALLENGE. 15 questions for you to muddle over.<br>\n<br>\nPrimary Planet want answers ... and they want them NOW!<br>\n<br>\nJust play the audio and listen up!<br>\n<br>\nDon't forget -- it's about accuracy, not speed.\u00a0<br>\n<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprimaryplanet.ie\/Maths.aspx?maths_id=32\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color:#FFFF00\">https:\/\/www.theprimaryplanet.ie\/Maths.aspx?maths_id=32<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\n        <\/td>\n    <\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #FFD343;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <strong><img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1744866\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/1ec364fe-b546-40b4-bcbe-b1ea569d8647.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 300px;height: 300px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"300\"><br>\n<span style=\"color:#000000\">Maths at Home<\/span><\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color:#000000\">We have developed a series of appropriate resources to help support the learning of maths at home. You can catch up on all the activities we have released to date at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathsweek.ie\/2020\/maths-activities\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">https:\/\/www.mathsweek.ie\/2020\/maths-activities\/<\/a><\/span>\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #FFFFFF;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a id=\"Bodmas answer\" name=\"Bodmas answer\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>A parting puzzle from Ben:<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br>\nHave a look at this simple maths problem which has divided (forgive the pun!) the\u00a0internet on what is the correct answer (or answers! ;))<br>\n<br>\nIt is a question of BODMAS (Brackets, Orders, Division\/Multiplication, Addition\/Subtraction) or\u00a0\u00a0BIDMAS (Brackets, Indices, Division\/Multiplication, Addition\/Subtraction) or PEMDAS (Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication\/Division, Addition\/Subtraction). These are all of course the same order of operations but can confuse the learner if she\/he encounters more than one mnemonic.\u00a0<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1745270\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/6f66049c-877f-0c83-ff03-f6de12f7774e.png\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 400px;height: 391px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"400\"><br>\n<br>\nIt might be instructional to think why people can interpret this expression in two different ways.<br>\nThis particular problem probably caused so much confusion because of the mixed notation used in the\u00a0expression. Perhaps\u00a0the brain sees 2(2+2) as a unit and evaluates it first.<br>\nIf it were written as follows, I suspect it would not be misinterpreted:<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1745398\" height=\"42\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/c10537f5-5859-c760-9da4-c80f2b3ca94e.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 150px;height: 42px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"150\"><br>\nThis would be unambiguous in the following form<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1745394\" height=\"57\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/6bd6d7aa-fdda-f813-3a9d-9cf543e1e801.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 100px;height: 57px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"100\"><br>\nOr if the intention was that the expression would equal 1, then extra brackets are required.<br>\n<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1745402\" height=\"35\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/be2dae9c-c3f6-1dd8-0c57-39886a0003c3.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 145px;height: 35px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"145\"><br>\nIt might be a nice investigation for learners who are confident with their arithmetic. It is also instructional about the importance of writing carefully so that people can understand what we mean.<br>\nRead what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastlive.co.uk\/news\/uk-world-news\/simple-maths-problem-completely-bewilders-20573192\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Belfast Live had to say about it<\/a>.<br>\n<br>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #3B8EB5;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <a id=\"JUNIOR CYCLE TALKS\" name=\"JUNIOR CYCLE TALKS\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><\/a><br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1745090\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/e4ea4acd-988c-4d38-8305-9e82a40358d1.jpeg\" style=\"border: 0px initial;width: 300px;height: 300px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"300\"><br>\n<br>\n<strong>Junior Cycle Talks<\/strong> is a podcast provided by the Junior Cycle for Teachers support service. The podcasts explore a variety of issues, themes and topics that may be of interest to all teachers, students, parents and school leaders. Listen to Ep.5 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-65250337\/tangents-episode-5-with-claire-cooper-dr-aibhin-bray\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color:#FFFF00\">HERE<\/span><\/a><\/strong><br>\n<br>\nThis episode is with Dr Aibh\u00edn Bray and Claire Cooper. Aibh\u00edn is an Assistant Professor in Mathematics in the School of Education, Trinity College and Claire is a Teacher Fellow with Trinity Access. Some of the topics discussed include active learning pedagogies, technology in the maths classroom and Bridge 21. For more information on Bridge 21 visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gate.sc\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thestaffroom.ie&token=f46cb9-1-1620140809904\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/www.thestaffroom.ie\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color:#FFFF00\">www.thestaffroom.ie<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#FFFF00\">\u00a0<\/span>\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"min-width: 100%;padding: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                <table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-top: 2px solid #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        <td style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                            <span><\/span>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n<!--            \n                <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 18px;\">\n                <hr class=\"mcnDividerContent\" style=\"border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;\" \/>\n-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageCardBlock\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnImageCardBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td class=\"mcnImageCardBlockInner\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\n\n<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageCardTopContent\" width=\"100%\" style=\"background-color: #7C4DAD;border: 12px none;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <tbody><tr>\n        <td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 18px 18px 0px;color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\" width=\"528\">\n            <p style=\"color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;line-height: 150%;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:30px\"><a id=\"Hamilton Way\" name=\"Hamilton Way\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><\/a>Sign the Petition!<\/span><br>\n<br>\nEvery Year during Maths Week, The Hamilton Walk goes from Dunsink Observatory to Brooms Bridge to mark the famous discovery of quaternions by William Rowan Hamiltom. It follows the route of a proposed new cycle route - The Hamilton Way.<br>\n<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1745102\" height=\"219\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/40360581-8f13-a808-a711-4a322ca2462b.jpeg\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 300px;height: 219px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"300\"><br>\nThe virtual Hamilton Walk can be seen <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iDin-pXSzY4\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color:#00FF00\">HERE<\/span><\/a><br>\n<br>\nThe\u00a0 pedestrian and cycle route would link Dunsink Observatory, the Royal Canal Greenway, Ashtown, and the Tolka Valley Greenway and make the observatory more accessible for all.\u00a0<\/strong><br>\n<br>\nDunsink Observatory is part of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) and has been operated by DIAS since 1947. DIAS has a long term lease from the owner of the observatory, the Office of Public Works (OPW).<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;line-height: 150%;\">The 450 m long \u201cHamilton Way\u201d would enable observatory staff and members of the public to access the Observatory in a safe and convenient manner by foot, bike or wheelchair. This would transform access to the Observatory and open it up to many more visitors from the local area and beyond.<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;line-height: 150%;\"><strong>Please\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/my.uplift.ie\/p\/hamiltonway\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color:#00FF00\">click here to support the\u00a0petition<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0Fingal\u00a0County\u00a0Council\u00a0and\u00a0Dublin\u00a0City\u00a0Council.\u00a0<\/strong><br>\nShare your thoughts on the Hamilton Way by emailing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunsink.dias.ie\/hamiltonway\/dunsink@dias.ie\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color:#00FF00\">dunsink@dias.ie<\/span><\/a>. All support welcome!<\/p>\n\n        <\/td>\n    <\/tr>\n    <tr>\n        <td class=\"mcnImageCardTopImageContent\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 18px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n        \n            \n\n            <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/fbcc778c-6607-6ef8-fdb2-ce646fba02bd.jpeg\" width=\"504\" style=\"max-width: 768px;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;vertical-align: bottom;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n\n            \n        \n        <\/td>\n    <\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnImageCardBlock\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnImageCardBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td class=\"mcnImageCardBlockInner\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n<table align=\"right\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnImageCardBottomContent\" width=\"100%\" style=\"background-color: #5680A0;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <tbody><tr>\n        <td class=\"mcnImageCardBottomImageContent\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding-top: 18px;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 0;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n        \n            \n\n            <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/01304008-1f0e-03e6-06bb-e21c4672e536.jpeg\" width=\"400\" style=\"max-width: 400px;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;vertical-align: bottom;\" class=\"mcnImage\">\n            \n        \n        <\/td>\n    <\/tr>\n    <tr>\n        <td class=\"mcnTextContent\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding: 9px 18px;color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\" width=\"528\">\n            <div style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Maths Map of Ireland<\/strong><br>\n\u00a0<br>\nThe Maths Map of Ireland is an exciting new project from Maths Week Ireland and the ESB. The project will see the creation of a Maths Map; to include historical places and people relevant to maths; maths trails and contemporary maths figures and places of interest.\u00a0It is famous for being the location where Sir William Rowan Hamilton first wrote down the fundamental formula for quaternions on 16 October 1843<br>\n<br>\nIf you are interested in contributing please email <span style=\"color:#FFFF00\">mathsweek@wit.ie <\/span>with the subject MATHS MAP.\u00a0<br>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n\n        <\/td>\n    <\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"min-width: 100%;padding: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                <table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-top: 2px solid #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        <td style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                            <span><\/span>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n<!--            \n                <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 18px;\">\n                <hr class=\"mcnDividerContent\" style=\"border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;\" \/>\n-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n    <!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n\t<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                <table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        \n                        <td style=\"padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                        \n                            <table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #F0B8B8;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                                <tbody><tr>\n                                    <td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;\">\n                                        <span style=\"font-size:18px\">Gathering 4 Gardner Videos<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"1745062\" height=\"173\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/1e4c696c230483f91e7da02d5\/images\/35c5cfb6-61da-40f3-b8b8-7ca768a05bc9.png\" style=\"border: 0px;width: 600px;height: 173px;margin: 0px;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" width=\"600\"><\/span><br>\nThe Gathering4Gardner Foundation celebrates the contribution of Martin Gardner to recreational maths, popularisation of maths, magic, art and skepticism. Their Celebration of Mind series features some of the best and most inspiring maths presenters, including inventors, magicians, mime acts, artists and more.\u00a0<br>\nSee these free videos on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/G4GCelebration\u00a0\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">YouTube channel here\u00a0<\/a><br>\n<br>\n\u00a0\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"min-width: 100%;padding: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                <table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-top: 2px solid #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        <td style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                            <span><\/span>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n<!--            \n                <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 18px;\">\n                <hr class=\"mcnDividerContent\" style=\"border-bottom-color:none; 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and\u00a0<strong>Ken Webb<\/strong>,\u00a0<em>South Eastern Regional College<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>College Principals\u2019 Group<\/em><br>\n<em>Chaired by:<\/em><br>\n<strong>Dr Caoimhe Archibald MLA<\/strong>, Chair, Committee for the Economy<br>\n<strong>Stewart Dickson MLA<\/strong>, Alliance Party Economy Spokesperson and Member, Committee for the Economy<br>\nBook online here:<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.policyforumforni.co.uk\/book\/NI-Skills-21\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF\">https:\/\/www.policyforumforni.co.uk\/book\/NI-Skills-21<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\n                                    <\/td>\n                                <\/tr>\n                            <\/tbody><\/table>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n                \n\t\t\t\t<!--[if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n            <\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody>\n<\/table><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;\">\n    <tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n        <tr>\n            <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"min-width: 100%;padding: 38px 18px 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                <table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 100%;border-top: 2px solid #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                    <tbody><tr>\n                        <td style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n                            <span><\/span>\n                        <\/td>\n                    <\/tr>\n                <\/tbody><\/table>\n<!--            \n                <td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 18px;\">\n                <hr class=\"mcnDividerContent\" style=\"border-bottom-color:none; 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But often a subject that seemed impossible at first suddenly starts clicking into place when you come back to it for the second time.\u201d<br>\nMarcus du Sautoy<br>\n\u00a0<br>\n\u201cI almost never meet a teacher who believes moving through a curriculum regardless of whether or not the pupils have gripped the ideas is the right thing to do.<br>\n\u00a0<br>\nBut also \u2026.<br>\n\u00a0<br>\nI almost never meet a teacher who doesn\u2019t feel under pressure to \u2018keep up with the curriculum \u2026.\u201d<br>\nMark McCourt @EmathsUK<br>\n\u00a0<br>\n<strong>Puzzle of the month<\/strong> (Henry Dudeney 1857 - 1930)<br>\n<strong>Five cards<\/strong><br>\nI have five cards bearing the figures I, 3, 5, 7, and 9. How can I arrange them in a row so that the number formed by the first pair multiplied by the number formed by the last pair, with the central number subtracted, will produce a number composed of repetitions of one figure? Thus, in the example I have shown, 31 multiplied by 79 and 5 subtracted will produce 2444, which would have been all right if that 2 had happened to be another 4. Of course, there must be two solutions, for the pairs are clearly interchangeable.<br>\n\u00a0\n<table align=\"center\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\n\t<tbody>\n\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t<td style=\"width: 40px;height: 40px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 3<\/td>\n\t\t\t<td style=\"width: 40px;height: 40px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 1<\/td>\n\t\t\t<td style=\"width: 40px;height: 40px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 5<\/td>\n\t\t\t<td style=\"width: 41px;height: 40px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 7<\/td>\n\t\t\t<td style=\"width: 41px;height: 40px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 9<\/td>\n\t\t<\/tr>\n\t<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\u00a0<br>\n<strong>What is subtraction?<\/strong><br>\n\u00a0<br>\nThis is the question James Tanton (Global Math Project) is posing. I have worked with James during a Maths Week Ireland festival and like most of us, his philosophy is that maths is all around us and we should exploit it.<br>\n\u00a0<br>\nWhat does \u201cborrowing and carrying\u201d really mean? Were shopkeepers (in the olden days!) taught to add on when working out change? Do we \u201cround up\u201d or \u201cround down\u201d? James\u2019 has many thoughts in his <a href=\"https:\/\/globalmathproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Issue-23-NMF-Weekly-Newsletter-Subtraction-.pdf\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">newsletter<\/a>.<br>\n\u00a0<br>\n<strong>Maths activities involving the weather<\/strong><br>\nThe weather has not been very pleasant in the UK in May with large amounts of rain fallings and low temperatures hence the search for maths activities \u2013 a sphere in our lives where maths is involved.<br>\n\u00a0<br>\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/weather\/learn-about\/met-office-for-schools\/resources-for-7-11\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Met Office<\/a> has produced several interesting projects covering all age groups including deciphering the weather during WWII and making your own barometer.<br>\n\u00a0<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachervision.com\/themes\/all-kinds-weather\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Teacher vision<\/a> looks at measuring temperature and involves creating your own thermometer.<br>\n\u00a0<br>\n\u00a0<br>\n\u00a0<br>\n<strong>Let\u2019s play cricket!<\/strong><br>\n\u00a0<br>\nCricket has now become the \u2018in-game\u2019 for girls and the game of rounders seems to be fading and only played on the village greens. Cricket is an ideal tool to develop mathematical skills with all the data produced in the game.<br>\n\u00a0<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tanworthschool.co.uk\/cricket-problems-that-might-get-you-stumped-maths\/\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Number problems<\/a> \u2013 from Tamworth-in-Arden Primary School<br>\n\u00a0<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiancurriculumlessons.com.au\/2012\/12\/12\/kanga-10s-maths-lesson\/\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Australian curriculum lessons<\/a> \u2013 the activities looking at graphs, median, medium and mode after a quick fun game of cricket. On this site they talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/mncjcc.nsw.cricket.com.au\/files\/15121\/files\/Game%20formats\/Kanga%20Cricket.pdf\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">Kanga cricket<\/a> but any similar game will produce statistics for the activities.<br>\n\u00a0<br>\n<strong>My puzzle booklets<\/strong><br>\nI have just completed \/ compiled nine booklets and they are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcbeagle.com\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;\">www.dcbeagle.com<\/a>. They are free with no strings attached.<br>\n\u00a0<br>\n\u00a0<strong>DCBEAGLE Challenges<\/strong><br>\n\u00a0The great news is that I will be on the road again from September with my challenges, hoping there are no COVID setbacks. Bookings are now open for all of them.<br>\n\u00a0<br>\n<strong>Puzzle solution<\/strong><br>\nThe number is either 3 9 1 5 7 or 5 7 1 3 9. In either case the product of the two pairs 39 and 57, minus 1, results in 2222.<br>\n<br>\n<strong>Final words<\/strong><br>\n\u201cWhat is mathematics? 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