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Sat 08 Aug 2008Why do erudite people boast of blissful ignorance of maths?
All things fall apart . . . well they will if we keep valuing literacy at the expense of numeracy, writes Donald Clarke
THE NEWS that more than 5,000 Leaving Cert candidates managed to fail their maths exams has, understandably enough, sent business leaders and education analysts into a frenzy of hair-tearing and teeth-gnashing.
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