Check below for Maths Week 2023 events!
This is a hybrid festival, please be sure to check the location, time and dates of all events before booking.
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Free Online General public Family
Building Delaunay Triangles Workshop
Marino Institute of Education Griffith Ave, Clontarf, Dublin 9Audience: Third Level. Building Delaunay Triangles Workshop in Marino with resident artist Mark Joyce on Wednesday October 16th at 12:10. A Delaunay triangulation is created using a set of random points or seeds that makes a triangular ‘mesh’. This triangulation was invented by Boris Delaunay in 1934, its random quality allows for the modelling of natural
New Ways of doing Sums with Irish Times Columnist Peter Lynch
National Library of Ireland Kildare Street, Dublin 2Audience: Public. Prof Peter Lynch, author of That's Maths tells the story of the The Mathematical Life of George Gabriel Stokes. George Gabriel Stokes was born in Skreen, Co. Sligo 200 years ago. From an early age, he showed clear signs of brilliance, his schoolteacher recording that “Master George was working out new ways of
Maths in the City: Dublin
College Green Dublin 2The Maths Week team will be taking their live pop-up maths exhibit to the streets of Dublin this Maths Week. We will have shows and activities for all the family at the Bank of Ireland Plaza on College Green in the heart of Dublin city centre. Stop by for a taste of the lighter side
Celebration of Mind at the Botanic Gardens
National Botanic Gardens Glasnevin, Dublin 9On the last day of Maths Week and as part of the Halloween festival, Maths Week Ireland visits the Botanic Gardens in Dublin. This Celebration of Mind event is part of a worldwide effort to celebrate the work of Martin Gardner prolific writer of puzzle books. There will be a wide variety of maths demonstrations, puzzles,
Fractions, percentages and budgeting
Limerick and Clare ETB Further Education Centre Room 23, Clonroad Campus, Ennis, Co. ClareAudience: Maths Educators. Niamh O’Meara, Lecturer in Mathematics Education, EPI STEM, University of Limerick presents Designing tasks for the teaching and learning of fractions, percentages and budgeting Date: Friday 1st November 2019 Time: 10:00am – 1:00pm lunch at 1:00pm Venue: Limerick and Clare ETB Further Education Centre, Room 23, Clonroad Campus, Ennis, Co. Clare Booking:
Family Scavenger Hunt
Virtual EventAudience: Families (Family + Maths) x (zany activities) = an unforgettable experience! Join the whacky MC, Steve Sherman (Chief Imagination officer of Livingmaths.com in South Africa) for some mathematical mayhem. Families will need to work together to accomplish missions from Saturday the 10th of October until Sunday afternoon. You will join the activity via an app
Countdown Live!
ONLINE EventAudience: Families, All Description: Maths Week Live @ Explorium! Join Mark and Ali to celebrate Maths Week 2020 as they take the chair LIVE on Countdown! Numbers, puzzles, enigmas a good 9 letter word thrown in for good measure! Booking Details Free event, streaming live on YouTube at 11am https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM4MnURw83M
Big & Small with Caroline Ainsley
ONLINE EventAudience: Age 4-7; Jnr-1st class (ROI); Y1-Y3 (NI) A show all about scale and the importance of scaling different shapes using balloons, soap bubbles AND paper, participants will have hands on opportunity to make two different scale models of a paper airplane. The participants will need paper, scotch tape and as an optional extra, round
Maths v Sport with Tom Crawford
ONLINE EventAudience: Age 15-18; TY 5th-6th Year (ROI); Y12-Y14 (NI) How do you take the perfect penalty? What is the limit of human endurance? Where is the best place to attempt a world record? Maths has all of the answers and I’ll be telling you how to use it to be better at sport (results may vary). For
Math puzzles with Mary I.
ONLINE EventAudience: Primary school children 7 to 13 Description: To celebrate Maths Week, Mary Immaculate College (MIC) are bringing you lots of different fun Math puzzles for you to do at home or at school. These puzzles can be done on your own or as part of a team. Booking Details Get your packs from our
2020 vision with your Maths Eyes
ONLINE EventAudience: Primary Teachers Description: Everyone uses mathematics in their daily life but they sometimes don't call it mathematics. For most people, the mathematics that surrounds them remains invisible and parents underestimate their mathematical abilities because they often consider the mathematics they can do as 'common sense' and the tasks they can't do as 'mathematics'. In
Maths Workshop with Douglas Buchanan
ONLINE EventAudience: Primary Maths Week Ireland is pleased to facilitate maths workshops led by maths educator Douglas Buchanan for primary schools around Ireland. These one-hour long workshops are intended for Fourth and Fifth Class pupils. Doug’s workshops give participants the opportunity to solve various puzzles working in pairs or small groups. It gives them the chance
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.