This year because of the global Covid 19 pandemic, the number of events are limited. Please check back here as we will continue to post events as they are confirmed.
Virtual Maths Brunch @ Mary Immaculate College
ONLINE EventAudience: Second Level Students :Transition Year, 5th Year and 6th Year Description: Virtual Maths Brunch @ Mary Immaculate College Thurles : Join staff and students of MIC Thurles for an online maths lecture with Dr Derek Kitson on emerging applications of geometry and combinatorics in science and technology. Booking Details - Contact: patricia.osullivan@mic.ul.ie or derek.kitson@mic.ul.ie
It Doesn’t Add Up with Ken Farquhar
ONLINE EventAudience: Age 7-12; 2nd-6th class (ROI); Y4-Y8 (NI) Pick a card any card, is this it?? No? Any of these? Yes? How does that work? Could it really involve Maths? A show with no sleight of hand, just some fantastic maths. Dr Ken presents some of his favourite tricks revealing all the maths behind them.
Numeracy in Context
ONLINE EventNumeracy in context: Exploring real life contexts for numeracy development Facilitator: Aibhín Bray, Assistant Professor in Mathematics Education, Trinity College Dublin There is no cost for attending these ‘Maths Week 2020’ webinars. You don’t have to be a NALA member to participate. However, we would be delighted if you would consider joining if you are not already
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy of Mathematics
ONLINE EventAudience: Secondary students As part of the Maths Week 2020, the UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics will run the virtual event ''A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy of Mathematics''. The event will take place on Thursday 15/10 at 17.00 via zoom and it will consist of 5-minute presentations from academic members of our school. Its
Maths4All TeachMeet
ONLINE EventAudience: Teachers Are you willing to share your ideas about maths teaching? Would you like to take a peek into other teachers’ classes? Maths4All will host an online TeachMeet on Thursday 15th October from 6 o’clock. A TeachMeet is an organised but informal meeting for teachers to share good practice, practical innovations and personal insights
Einstein’s Relativity
ONLINE EventAudience: Age 15 years+; TY 5th and 6th year (ROI); Y12-Y14 (NI) and Adult Einstein's Relativity - Pythagoras for Space and Time Join Dr Ian Jubb of DIAS and discover how Einstein's theory of relativity opened up a whole new world of understanding and exploration. Einstein's Theory of Relativity revolutionised the way we understand the
How to bring your maths lessons to life
ONLINE EventAudience: Teachers Watch live on https://www.mathsweek.ie/2020/mathsweektv-secondary/ No one understands what makes students tick better than we teachers. Bobby shows how he uses his students’ interest in popular culture - football, Bake Off, Strictly, pop music and even - say it quietly - Love Island! to show where there is maths in all sorts of unexpected contexts. Booking:
Adults Learning Maths in the lockdown
ONLINE EventAudience: Adult ALM 2020 Virtual Seminar Series The panel discussion is entitled “Adults Learning Maths in the lockdown” and is being organised to coincide with Maths Week Ireland 2020. Much mathematics education research is conducted in schools or other education settings. And education researchers nurture their creativity and collaborations by attending conferences in their own countries or abroad. But the pandemic
Galway Atlantaquaria
Galway Atlantaquaria, National Aquarium of Ireland Toft Park, Promenade, Salthill, GalwayAudience: Primary School Students This year Galway Atlantaquaria are taking their Maths workshops to the beach! During this tailor-made workshop students will be engaged in investigating symmetry, measuring, comparing & ordering while exploring the wonders of the seashore in a non-contact nature. Students will then discover the numbers behind marine litter, learning how long they
Space Maths: How Big? How Far? How Old?
ONLINE EventAudience: Primary 4th - 6th class Description: Space Maths: How Big? How Far? How Old? Date: 10/16/2020 Time: 9am - 10am or - 10.30am - 11.30am or - 1pm- 2pm Booking Details: frances.mccarthy@bco.ie Website www.bco.ie
Momentous Maths with Kjartan Poskitt
ONLINE EventAudience: Age 9-12; 4th-6th class (ROI); Y6-Y8 (NI) One Sided Paper explores the strange Mobius strips that you can cut in half, yet they stay together! The Pennies that Reach the Sun starts with a chess board with one penny (or cent) on the first square. The next square has two, then four, then eight…
Die rather than surrender!
Dundalk Grammar SchoolAudience: 5th years Dr Shane Dowdall, Dundalk Grammer School – By Invitation only
Area and Perimeter
ONLINE EventMaking sense of area and perimeter (levels 2 and 3) Facilitator: Mark Prendergast, Senior Lecturer in Education, University College Cork There is no cost for attending these ‘Maths Week 2020’ webinars. You don’t have to be a NALA member to participate. However, we would be delighted if you would consider joining if you are not already a
Maths Week Mega Quiz
ONLINE EventSECOND QUIZ Friday 16th - Due to popular demand there is another Mega Maths Quiz this FRIDAY at 11.00am Audience: For pupils in 6th class, 1st year, Primary 7 and Year 8 Join Izak9 creator Franz Schlindwein for the Maths Week Mega Quiz. This fun quiz event is specially designed for pupils in the last
How to fold things into thirds with James Tanton
ONLINE EventAudience: Age 12-15; 1st-3rd Year (ROI); Y9-Y11 (NI) James Tanton is a research mathematician deeply interested in bridging the gap between the mathematics experienced by school students and the creative mathematics practiced and explored by mathematicians. He worked as a college professor for a decade, as a high-school teacher for a decade, and is now the
The Hamilton Walk
ONLINE EventThe Hamilton Walk is an annual event held each year in Dublin on the 16th of October, the anniversary of the day in 1843 when William Rowan Hamilton discovered the non-commutative algebraic system known as quaternions, while walking with his wife along the banks of the Royal Canal. This year with restrictions the normal walk cant
Hamilton Lecture 2020
ONLINE EventAudience: 12 years and up Professor Terence Tao will deliver this year’s Hamilton Lecture, as part of the Royal Irish Academy's Hamilton Day celebrations, generously sponsored by Ibec. In his talk entitled 'The Cosmic Distance Ladder’ he will show how we can use basic secondary-school level maths, along with indirect measurements, to work out the
Galway Atlantaquaria
Galway Atlantaquaria, National Aquarium of Ireland Toft Park, Promenade, Salthill, GalwayAudience: Primary School Students This year Galway Atlantaquaria are taking their Maths workshops to the beach! During this tailor-made workshop students will be engaged in investigating symmetry, measuring, comparing & ordering while exploring the wonders of the seashore in a non-contact nature. Students will then discover the numbers behind marine litter, learning how long they
Galway Atlantaquaria
Galway Atlantaquaria, National Aquarium of Ireland Toft Park, Promenade, Salthill, GalwayAudience: Primary School Students This year Galway Atlantaquaria are taking their Maths workshops to the beach! During this tailor-made workshop students will be engaged in investigating symmetry, measuring, comparing & ordering while exploring the wonders of the seashore in a non-contact nature. Students will then discover the numbers behind marine litter, learning how long they
DojoMór
ONLINE EventAudience: ages 7 to 17 years. Due to Covid 19 this years event will be held online. DojoMór is a national coding event for kids aged 7 to 17 years. There will be a combination of coding workshops available on the day such as programming, scratch, web design, App development and much more. There will