Renowned Irish comedian Dara Ó Briain has been honoured as the recipient of the 2021 Maths Week Ireland Award for his contribution to Raising Public Awareness of Maths. The award is presented once each year during Maths Week Ireland - the all-island festival of maths and numeracy (16th - 24th October). The
Maths Week features in THE Awards Shortlist Waterford Institute of Technology has been shortlisted for the THE Awards (Times Higher Education Awards) in the Widening Participation and Outreach category. The THE Awards are widely known as the “Oscars of higher education”. The awards ceremony will be held in London on 25
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Pop Math: all upcoming math outreach events at glance! Rome, January 21. Pop Math is online! It is the calendar of the European Mathematical Society for all the outreach events in mathematics in Europe and beyond. Today is the starting day for the new website Pop Math http://popmath.eu/ created by the Raising Public
The 15th Maths Week Ireland took place under Covid-19 restrictions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Over those 15 years, Maths Week has engaged over two and a half million people! Maths Week promotes a positive attitude towards maths and shows the importance of maths in our lives and the role it
Maths Week Numbers continue to rise across all engagement platforms Interim analysis of schools registrations show strong participation across the whole island. See Wednesdays breakdown here
Maths and Covid How does maths help in the fight against Covid? What does "flattening the curve" mean? What is an "R Number" ? Kayleigh Foran of the Maths Week team takes us through the Maths of Covid in this 30 min video. Target audience: Transition Year / GCSE and above.
An amazing 23,329 valid answers were submitted by primary schools from all over the island. The leaders of the Junior challenge is Fourtowns Primary School Ahoghill, Antrim on a score of 2648 And five and a half hours drive away is the senior leaders, Kealkill NS in West Cork on 3071 It is early
On 20 September 2020 a sad story circulated about a man in Spain who was evicted from his flat along with his 110 cats. It was claimed in the story that they all descended from a pair of cats the man took in 3 years ago. Is this possible? Can we use maths to
