asked the Minister for Education the number of schools in which the teacher, being a woman teaching senior classes, has no obligation to teach algebra or geometry where the number of teachers is three or more, and which have not secondary tops where such subjects would be included in the curriculum.
Written Answers. - Teaching of Algebra and Geometry.
86.
Excluding schools with secondary tops, there are some 1,570 national schools having a staff of three teachers or more. While in 599 of these, the principal teacher is a woman and the teaching of algebra and geometry is therefore, optional, nevertheless, algebra or geometry is, in fact, taught in many of these schools.