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3 Draft Leaving Certificate specifications consultations

3 Draft Leaving Certificate specifications consultations

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Mathematics

New features of this specification include Learning outcomes
Statements in curriculum specifications to describe the knowledge, understanding, skills and values that students should be able to demonstrate after a period of learning. 
across a unifying Strand
The strand is the primary division of content in the curriculum specification.
which permeate all the other strands: Number, Geometry and trigonometry, Algebra and functions and Statistics and probability. In each Strand
The strand is the primary division of content in the curriculum specification.
of the specification the Learning outcomes
Statements in curriculum specifications to describe the knowledge, understanding, skills and values that students should be able to demonstrate after a period of learning. 
associated with a particular mathematical idea have been grouped together thus supporting the conception of mathematics as an interconnected body of ideas and reasoning processes that students explore collaboratively with their teachers and their peers. In addition, the grouping makes explicit the cumulative nature of mathematics. There are also new assessments which offers students a chance to demonstrate their achievement as creators of mathematical reports. Teachers, students and parents will be able to check progress by logging in to examples of student work where they will see the range of annotated examples of work that students in junior cycle Mathematics create and see the Learning outcomes
Statements in curriculum specifications to describe the knowledge, understanding, skills and values that students should be able to demonstrate after a period of learning. 
in action.