Mathematical investigation

Prime Games

Speaker: 
Jenny Gage
Curriculum links: 
Maths and ... more maths
Participating school(s): 
Wirral primary schools
Date: 
Friday, March 4, 2011
Time: 
10.00 - 11.30
Age range: 
Year 6
Cost: 
£230 for up to 90 minutes

In this enrichment session for able Y6 students, we will investigate three games:

Submitted by jag55 on Tue, 16/11/2010 - 13:34

Stars

Speaker: 
Jenny Gage
Participating school(s): 
Liss EIP, Hampshire
Date: 
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Time: 
9.30 - 11.30
Age range: 
Year 6
Cost: 
£280 for up to 2 hours
  • What makes a star a star?  
  • How many ways can we draw one?  
  • Can we make stars in other ways?
  • What connections can we find between the types of star we can draw and the number of vertices the star has?
  • What connections can we find between simple regular polygons and stars?

We'll be investigating these questions during the session through drawing, cutting out, pencil and paper investigation and an online animation.

Submitted by jag55 on Wed, 29/09/2010 - 10:07

Prime Games

Speaker: 
Jenny Gage
Participating school(s): 
St Joseph's College, London
Date: 
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Time: 
10.35 - 12.05
Age range: 
Year 7
Cost: 
£230 for up to 90 minutes

In this enrichment session for Y7 students, we will investigate three games:

Submitted by jag55 on Thu, 02/09/2010 - 16:32

GCSE to A level

Students will be introduced to a mathematical model and a mathematical problem which will help them to see how concepts and techniques they have learnt so far are extended in A level study. We will look at:

Energy

conference logo

Preliminary questions and follow-up project work

What could be more important at the moment than Energy? In this conference, we will:

How far ...? How old ...? How much bigger ...?

  • How far is it to our nearest star?
  • How long would it take us to reach it with our most powerful rockets?
  • What about our nearest galaxy?
  • What is the probability that there is life elsewhere in our galaxy?
  • How far can we see with the most powerful telescopes?
  • How old is the information we receive from them?
  • How much bigger is a person than an atom? How much bigger is the Milky Way than the Earth?
  • How much bigger is the gravitational pull of the Earth than that of the person next to you?
Project Work
Asteroid
Addition Material
Scientific Notations
Calculating how long it takes to reach Planets

Black Holes for Beginners

Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge
black holes for beginners 

  • What is a black hole?
  • Why is it black?
  • What would happen to us if there was one near us?
  • How close are we to a black hole?
  • What are dark matter and dark energy?
Project Work
How fast do you have to go to escape a black hole?
Gravity and Black Holes
Addition Material
Planetary Data

Space Science

Lisa Jardine-Wright, University of Cambridge

29 June 2007

Y9, Ousedale School, Milton Keynes

Preliminary data collection

Equipment required:

  • running track
  • stop clocks or watches
  • people to run and/or walk

 

Groups: Looking Beneath the Surface

Jenny Gage, University of Cambridge

  • What happens if you combine two symmetries of a particular regular polygon? Do you always get another symmetry?
  • How about if you do one symmetry followed by another? Does it make a difference if you do it the other way round?
  • How can the symmetries of a rectangle and the multiplication table for the numbers {1, 3, 5, 7} mod 8 be the same? And what does multiplication mod 8 mean anyway?
Project Work
What is a Group?
Combining Symmetries
Investigating Transformations
Dancing with Mathematics
Addition Material
Transformations Investigation Work 1
Transformations Investigation Work 2

Ideas for follow-up project work

Linked From: 
Astronomy for Beginners

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Astronomy for Beginners

Activity

Planets
Constellations
Coloured light
Links

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