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Motivate...
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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How does gravity work?
In our fourth online poll to find out what Plus readers would most like to know about the Universe you told us that you'd like to find out how gravity works. We took the question to Professor Bangalore Sathyaprakash of the School of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University, and here is his answer. This interview is also available as a podcast.
If you'd like to put another Universe question to experts, vote in the current poll, or leave a comment on this blog.
nrich
Stage 2::[problem**] Neighbours
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Through the Looking Glass...again and again!
What happens if Alice takes a magic trip inside a conic arrangement of mirrors?
Puzzled? Wait until you see Alice's cubes and icosahedrons! We will see how many triangles make up a cube or a dodecahedron using 3D-kaleidoscopes. We will look at reflections and rotations in the three dimensional space.
nrich
Stage 2::[problem*] Tables Without Tens
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What would you like to know about your Universe — The fifth online poll
This poll is now closed. The most popular question was: "Is time travel allowed?" We will publish the answer in an article on Plus shortly. Thank you for taking part!
This is the fifth online poll in our series to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy 2009. Choose your favourite question from the list on the right, and we'll put the one that proves most popular to world-leading astronomers and cosmologists, including Astronomer Royal Martin Rees and author and cosmologist John D. Barrow. The poll will remain open for a month and the answer will be published in a Plus article and podcast soon after. If your most burning question is not on this list, then leave a comment on this blog and we'll endeavour to include it in a future poll.
The winning questions in our previous polls have been
- What happened before the Big Bang?
- Are the constants of nature really constant?
- What are dark energy and dark matter?
- And How does gravity work?
