Courses

The Project Maths Development Team, in conjunction with the NCTE, is running a series of workshops to support the integration of ICT into the teaching of mathematics. These introductory modules focus on the use of software to teach geometry, trigonometry and statistics. They will also include a short introduction to using a laptop with a data projector.
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List of Centres and Start Dates

Location	*Contact Details*	*Start Date*
Athlone Education Centre	http://www.athloneeducationcentre.com/ Athlone Education Centre	15th November 2010
Blackrock Education Centre	http://www.blackrockec.ie/ Blackrock Education Centre	TBC
Carrick-on-shannon Education Centre	http://www.carrickedcentre.ie/ Carrick on Shannon Education Centre	15th Septemeber 2010
Cavan, VEC Offices, Cavan Town	http://www.cavanec.ie/ Cavan Education Centre	TBC
Cork Education Centre	http://www.cesc.ie/ Cork Education Centre	TBC
Donegal, Carndonagh Community School	http://www.ecdonegal.ie/ Donegal Education Centre	TBC
Donegal, Errigal College, Letterkenny	http://www.ecdonegal.ie/ Donegal Education Centre	TBC
Donegal Education Centre	http://www.ecdonegal.ie/ Donegal Education Centre	TBC
Donegal, Cloughaneely CS, Falcarragh	http://www.ecdonegal.ie/ Donegal Education Centre	TBC
Drumcondra Education Centre	http://www.ecdrumcondra.ie/ Drumcondra Education Centre	30th September 2010
Dublin West Education Centre	http://www.dwec.ie/ Dublin West Education Centre	14th September 2010
Galway Education Centre	http://www.galwayec.ie/ Galway Education Centre	Course 1: Begins 16th September 2010 Course 2: Begins on 3rd November 2010
Kildare Education Centre	http://www.eckildare.ie/ Kildare Education Centre	20th September 2010
Kilkenny Education Centre	http://www.eckilkenny.ie/ Kilkenny Education Centre	6th October 2010
Limerick Education Centre	http://www.lec.ie/ Limerick Educaiton Centre	2nd November 2010
Laois Education Centre	http://www.laoisedcentre.ie/ Laois Education Centre	29th September 2010
Mayo Education Centre	http://www.mayoeducationcentre.ie/ Mayo Education Centre	8th November 2010
Monaghan Education Centre	http://www.metc.ie/ Monaghan Education Centre	21st September 2010
Navan Education Centre	http://www.ecnavan.ie/ Navan Education Centre	4th October 2010
Sligo Education Centre	http://www.ecsligo.ie/ Sligo Education Centre	2 Courses available Course 1: 28th September Course 2: 6th October
Tralee Education Centre	http://www.edcentretralee.ie/ Tralee Education Centre	4th October 2010
Waterford Education Centre	http://www.wtc.ie/ Waterford Education Centre	TBC
West Cork Education Centre	http://www.westcorkeducationcentre.com/ West Cork Education Centre	20th September 2010

Course Duration:
This course consists of 5 modules. Each module has been designed to be of 2.5 hours in duration.

Target Audience:
These modules are aimed at Post Primary teachers of Mathematics who are interested in integrating ICT within their classroom.

Course Content/Topics:

Workshop 1:
GeoGebra for Synthetic Geometry
This covers the use of GeoGebra in the teaching of theorems, constructions and transformation geometry for both Junior Cert. and Leaving Cert. from Strand 2.
Workshop 2:
GeoGebra for Co-ordinate Geometry
This covers the use of GeoGebra in the teaching of co-ordinate geometry for both Junior Cert. and Leaving Cert. from Strand 2.
Workshop 3:
GeoGebra for Trigonometry plus participants sharing their resources
This covers the use of GeoGebra in the teaching of trigonometry for both Junior Cert. and Leaving Cert. from Strand 2.
Workshops 4 & 5:
Excel for teaching Statistics
This covers the use of Excel in the teaching of statistics. It will deal with the production of relevant graphs and formulae for both Junior Cert. and Leaving Cert. from Strand 1.

Pre-requisites:
Participants should be comfortable with basic ICT tasks, such as opening, editing, saving and closing files.
Participants who would like to attend a more introductory course in advance of the above modules should contact their local Education Centre to attend the ‘Introduction to PC’s and File Management’ module.
Geogebra is a free software package which can be downloaded from the http://www.geogebra.org

Subpages (1): Notes