Millennium Mathematics Project

NRICH Live for Secondary Teachers: Nurturing young problem solvers - offering opportunities for conjecturing and generalising

Jess — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 09:37:08 +0000

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NRICH Live for Secondary Teachers: Nurturing young problem solvers - offering opportunities for conjecturing and generalising

Date

Wednesday, 19 June 2024

Time

16:00 - 16:50

Venue

Online

Cost

FREE

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Mathematicians are not only interested in answering questions, they also often pose questions. They might ask, "Will this always happen?"; "Will this method always work?"; "Is this just a special case?"...

In this webinar, Charlie and Liz will consider how we can offer opportunities which will encourage learners to use specific examples as a springboard to generalising.

These webinars follow on from the previous ones, which focused on Exploring and Noticing, and Working Systematically. You can watch the recordings on the NRICH Problem-solving Schools Resources and Professional Development page.

NRICH Live for Primary Teachers: Nurturing young problem solvers - offering opportunities for conjecturing and generalising

Jess — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 09:32:17 +0000

Events

NRICH Live for Primary Teachers: Nurturing young problem solvers - offering opportunities for conjecturing and generalising

Date

Tuesday, 18 June 2024

Time

16:00 - 16:50

Venue

Online

Cost

FREE

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In this webinar, Charlie and Liz will consider how we can offer opportunities which will encourage learners to use specific examples as a springboard to generalising.

Government Chief Scientific Adviser maths challenge for National Numeracy Day

Julia — Wed, 29 May 2024 08:33:24 +0000

Government Chief Scientific Adviser maths challenge for National Numeracy Day

Explore our GO-Science challenge for National Numeracy Day!

Julia — Tue, 21 May 2024 14:22:04 +0000

Explore our GO-Science challenge for National Numeracy Day!

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Mathematics Discovery Day - Cambridge Festival

Julia — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:18:05 +0000

Events

Mathematics Discovery Day - Cambridge Festival

Date

Saturday, 23 March 2024

Time

12:00 - 16:00

Venue

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0WA

Cost

Free

Cambridge mathematicians and theoretical physicists work on everything from number theory to the Big Bang, using maths to tackle problems ranging from climate change to modelling the spread of pandemics.

Join staff and students from the Faculty of Mathematics (including MMP and NRICH staff) for hands-on activities, games and pop-up explorations to discover more! Discover the fluids lab hidden beneath our lawn to explore applied maths demonstrations and experiments (from human plumes to turbulence), practise your problem solving, challenge yourself to use statistics to learn Ancient Greek, and explore how maths can help us fight infectious disease with Lego epidemics.

This free family event is part of the 2024 Cambridge Festival. No booking required - drop in throughout the afternoon.

The Maths Cafe will be open throughout the event, serving hot and cold drinks, snacks and sandwiches.

Suitable for all ages from 8 to adult. Please note that all under-16s must be accompanied by a supervising adult.

Find out more here.

Contagious Maths

Julia — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 15:07:41 +0000

Contagious Maths

Explore our new Contagious Maths resources - discover how mathematics can help tackle infectious disease

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'Contagious Maths' Teacher Webinar - bringing real-life applications into the mathematics classroom

Julia — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 11:59:08 +0000

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'Contagious Maths' Teacher Webinar - bringing real-life applications into the mathematics classroom

Date

Wednesday, 20 March 2024

Time

16:00 - 17:00

Venue

Online

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Join Charlie Gilderdale from our NRICH team and special guest Professor Julia Gog OBE for this free online webinar to explore our new Contagious Maths curriculum-linked resources. The event is aimed at teachers of students aged 11-14.

NRICH's new curriculum-linked Contagious Maths resources for ages 11-14 enable students to use the mathematics they already know to understand how maths can help us tackle infectious disease.

These free KS3 resources are designed to explore how important real-world problems can be tackled with maths. Explanatory video clips give students the opportunity to join researchers on the mathematical frontline to learn more, and the resources include interactive tools to enable students to explore building mathematical models themselves.

The resources have been developed with Professor Julia Gog, who joins NRICH's Charlie Gilderdale for this webinar. Julia is Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Cambridge. Her research is in the mathematics of infectious diseases, and her experience includes working on the COVID-19 pandemic. Julia was a co-presenter with Jonathan Van Tam of one of the 2021 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.

How to book

This online webinar is free but places must be pre-booked. Please register here.

Contagious Maths

Julia — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 17:45:04 +0000

Contagious Maths

How can mathematics help us understand and tackle infectious diseases? From measles and 'flu to SARS and COVID, mathematicians work collaboratively with many other disciplines to help us understand and predict the epidemics that can spread through our communities, and to help us look at strategies that we may be able to use to contain them.

Our new Contagious Maths resources give school students and the public the opportunity to join researchers on the mathematical frontline to learn more, along with interactive tools to try your own hand at modelling disease spread.

Explore our Contagious Maths resources

There are two routes to explore our Contagious Maths resources, tailored for different audiences.

NRICH classroom resources for schools

These curriculum-linked NRICH classroom resources for ages 11-14 are designed to be used as a sequence of lessons. They enable students to use the mathematics they already know to understand how maths can help us tackle infectious disease. Detailed teacher notes are provided, and the learning outcomes are mapped to the UK National Curriculum.

Explore the NRICH classroom resources here

Plus Contagious Maths library

This multimedia content collection is aimed at interested general readers and older students. It includes articles and video clips giving an accessible introduction to the basics of disease modelling, and interactivities enabling you to explore and investigate the mathematical concepts involved.

Explore the Plus content collection here

Whichever route you follow, this project aims to give an introduction to mathematical modelling; explore how mathematicians can model the spread of disease through a population and the type of questions we might think about when looking at our models; and give an insight into what mathematics researchers working on these real-life problems actually do.

In the clip below, Professor Julia Gog from the University of Cambridge introduces the project. Julia's research focuses on the mathematics of infectious diseases, and her experience includes being one of the mathematical modellers working on COVID-19 during the pandemic.

About the Contagious Maths project

Our Contagious Maths resources have been developed by the Millennium Mathematics Project and Julia Gog, Professor of Mathematical Biology at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

This project was inspired and funded by the Royal Society's Rosalind Franklin Award, which was awarded to Julia Gog in 2020. You can watch Julia’s 2020 Rosalind Franklin Award lecture here. We thank the Royal Society for their encouragement and support in developing these resources.

The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2021 were a source of inspiration, where Julia was a co-presenter with Professor Jonathan van Tam for one of the lectures in 2021: A Perfect Storm. In particular, we thank Dan Plane and the team at the RI for the capsules and lovely custom-made NRICH tokens for the 'lucky dip' demonstration shown in these resources.

These resources were written, developed and edited by Julia Gog and the MMP team, including Marianne Freiberger, Charlie Gilderdale, Oscar Gillespie, Julia Hawkins, Ems Lord, Claire Metcalfe and Rachel Thomas. The clips were filmed by Howard France of Avito Ltd.

We thank the schools who have given us valuable feedback in the pilot phase of this project. We would love to hear any further feedback: please feel welcome to email us.

These Contagious Maths resources were developed and written by Julia Gog and the MMP team, including NRICH and Plus, and funded by the Royal Society's Rosalind Franklin Award.

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Julia — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 15:16:28 +0000

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NRICH launches new Problem-Solving Schools initiative

Julia — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 13:56:21 +0000

NRICH launches new Problem-Solving Schools initiative

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