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What did children learn in maths lessons 4,000 years ago? How does a maths archaeologist work? Can you become a Babylonian mathematician?
4,000 years ago, children in school were learning maths just as they do now. But what maths did they learn and how did they learn it? A free online multimedia resource pack created by our Motivate project for the Key Stage 2/3 transition shows us how we can find out about an ancient civilisation through the objects they left behind.
Do bacon sandwiches increase your chance of getting cancer?
Why are some medical treatments not available on the NHS?
How do epidemics spread and can we stop them?
The MMP has produced a series of five free online multi-media resource packs for Key Stages 3 and 4 on 'Maths and Our Health', funded by the Wellcome Trust.
What do Gollum, the new London 2012 Olympic stadium and the quest for sustainable energy have in common? They all involve the work of engineers. Engineering provides some of the most exciting applications of maths, which impact on all our lives every day.
A group of Year 12 students will spend five days in Cambridge this week (8th - 12th August) for the first Sutton Trust Summer School in Mathematics to be held at the University. The academic programme for the summer school has been devised by Dr Steve Hewson, Post-16 Co-ordinator for our NRICH project, and Dr Vicky Neale, Director of Studies in Mathematics for Murray Edwards College.
The London Mathematical Society and Institute of Mathematics and its Applications have announced that Professor John D Barrow, Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project, will receive the Christopher Zeeman Medal. The Christopher Zeeman Medal is a triennial award of the IMA and LMS to recognise and reward the contributions of mathematicians involved in promoting mathematics to the public.
stemNRICH - Core is a new section on our NRICH website providing stimulating and relevant resources to explore the ways in which mathematics, science and technology are linked, aimed at 11-16 year olds and their teachers.
Do bacon sandwiches increase your chance of getting cancer? Why are some drug treatments not available on the NHS? Does the maths you learn in the classroom REALLY have any practical use?
Dr James Grime's day job is taking a WW2 Enigma machine into schools to run cross-curricular presentations and hands-on workshops on codes and codebreaking for the MMP's Enigma Project. In Tuesday's Guardian, however, he writes about his other passion - communicating maths via YouTube.
Our NRICH project has published a set of trial mathematics activities designed for use in Early Years Foundation Stage settings.
