Connemara Maths Academy have just been awarded the Twitter #King Of Summer Camps in UK and Ireland! Thanks to everyone involved. Early Booking Discounts Available.
Make your own GoPro Video this summer! at the CMA Kylemore Abbey Summer Camp June 22nd – 29th… 3D Surf Wave Mathematically Modelled Choose one of your adventure sports outings, shoot it on one of our GoPro cameras and edit in our Visual Technology workshop…
Bill O’Herlihy and RTE can take solace from the fact that they are not alone. From the OECD (PIAAC) study in 2012, just over 25% of Irish adults score at or below Level 1 for numeracy compared to a 20% average across participating countries. While Bill’s contribution to the debate was hilarious, there is a very serious and expensive underlying…
The perils of rote learning were on display on RTE yesterday evening. Bill O’Herlihy demonstrated that he could well do with a week at the Connemara Maths Academy! According to Bill, David Moyes has super powers and lives in a parallel universe where a manager such as Moyes can view players over 8000 times per second. Bill claimed that David…
Irish people have been subjected to a whole array of austerity measures, and are taking the pain that few other countries could take. The reason we found ourselves in this situation is as much to do with rote learning in our schools as it has to do with the corrupt and incompetent politicians and businessmen we inherited through our education…
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) today (March 13th 2014) has strongly urged governments to encourage students to make careers in science, technology, engineering and maths to prevent a skills shortage in key industrial sectors, in a report ‘ Engineering our Future’. Visualisation and Creativity at CMA Katja Hall, CBI Chief Policy Director, says that growth and jobs will depend…
RESIDENTIAL SUMMER CAMPS 2018 For many a year scientists and poets alike pondered on why the sky was blue. Many thought that it was due to small droplets of water vapour in the atmosphere and indeed many still do. If the droplets of water vapour did indeed cause the blue colour we see, there would be more variation of sky…
Last August, CMA wrote the response below ‘Project Maths – An Opportunity for Career Success’ to an Irish Times Project Maths related article, in which the Irish Times argued that mathematics was being dumbed down. In fact, at CMA, we regard Ruarí Quinn’s new reforms as a great opportunity for all students and believe that Project Maths can in fact…