THE ONGOING DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW PRIMARY MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM – FROM RESEARCH TO REALITY
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Curriculum (PMC). This background paper drew on an extensive suite of evidence, including relevant national and international data and research. In particular, it utilised the NCCA’s curriculum reviews (2005, 2008) and evaluations by the Department of Education and Skills (2005, 2010), the two research reports and theAbstract
In Autumn 2014, the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) published two mathematics research reports (Dunphy et al., 2014; Dooley et al., 2014) at a conference in Dublin Castle entitled Maths is surprisingly important and cognitively fundamental. In addition to these reports, the NCCA also published a commissioned audit of mathematics curriculum policy across 12 jurisdictions (Burke, 2014). Building on this work, Autumn 2016 saw the publication of a background paper and brief to support the development of the new Primary Mathematics
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