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Mathematically based videoconferences for schools
- live link with a mathematical expert and other participating schools
- enrichment for students of all ages and their teachers
- cross-curricular topics
- highly interactive live videoconference sessions
Our objectives
- to enable schools to be part of the wider mathematical community
- to provide a range of resources on a variety of topics for students of all ages.
- to help schools set up and establish videoconferencing as a means of accessing high quality educational resources
Opportunities for students to:
- understand how maths relates to real life and other curriculum areas
- develop their own maths
- tell other participants about their work
- respond to questions from their peers and an expert
- find out what the others did with the same starting points
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Controlling cockroach chaos
Catching sight of a cockroach tends to make us behave chaotically, what with the running and screaming and throwing of shoes. But it appears that chaos might actually explain how we, and the cockroach itself, behave.
An interdisciplinary team of scientists from Germany have created a robotic cockroach that autonomously behaves in a way reminiscent of a real cockraoch. The robot independently changes gait depending on the surface it is walking on, avoids obstacles and can even extricate its leg from a hole or run away from predators. Recreating lifelike behaviour is not new, but this robot reproduces a huge range of behaviours and quickly reacts to new situations and switch between them. And the secret to its success is controlled chaos in its robotic brain.
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Maths student poster competition just launched!
If you're a maths student and feel like enthusing the next generation with your favourite bit of maths, then why not take part in the Further Mathematics Support Programme (FMSP) and Rolls–Royce plc third national poster competition.
Undergraduate or PGCE mathematics students are invited to design a poster, individually or as a group, which conveys the essence of a mathematical topic that has been covered at university by the designer(s). The poster should be targeted at school and college students studying AS or A level mathematics. Two winners will be chosen and receive £100 each, and their designs will be printed and sent out to over 2000 schools and colleges. The closing date is the 31st of March 2010. See the FMSP website for previous winners.
If this sounds interesting, then here are the rules. The poster should be mathematically accurate, attractively laid out, capable of enriching a course in AS or A level mathematics, and likely to attract school/college students to take mathematics (or mathematics-related subjects) at university. You can design your poster in any readily available software. Ideally, the page layout should be set to 59.4cm × 42.0cm, using either landscape or portrait format. The university's logo should appear in the top left corner and there should be a space 7cm high x 5cm wide in the top right corner for the FMSP logo. The bottom 2cm of the poster should be left blank. All images should be at least 300dpi.
Entries, as well as any questions about the competition, should be emailed to Richard Browne at RichardBrowne@furthermaths.org.uk. The email must include the name(s) and full contact details of the designer(s). The poster design should be attached to the e-mail, in the form of an editable file. The FMSP reserves the right to edit the winning designs before printing.
Happy designing!
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Global Warming and the Melting of the Arctic Ice
The Arctic sea ice has been retreating and thinning for many decades under the influence of global warming, but in the summer 2007 the extent made a huge step downwards which led some scientists to predict that the summer ice would be gone in 5 years (since modified to 20-30). This is a massive change with huge implications for the climate, and it seems to be brought about mainly by the thinning, which allows the summer melt to get rid of the ice altogether.
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Hands-On Maths Fair (Cambridge Science Festival)
Hands-on games and puzzles. Pit your wits against the Soma cube, tangrams, Auntie's Tea Cups or giant dominoes, and sharpen your strategic reasoning skills!
Part of the Cambridge Science Festival. No pre-booking necessary - drop in between 12 noon and 4pm.
Find the Pitt Building on the University's online map.
