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
Engineers Ireland Steps & Maths Week 2022 Show: Steve Sherman Show (3rd & 4th Class/Year 5 & Year 6)
Engineers Ireland HQ 22 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4Join internationally acclaimed and multi-award purchasing presenter, Steve Sherman, for an Edutaining mathemagical show that will shine a new spotlight on maths and have students falling in love with maths. Be prepared to be wowed with his maths, his magic and his ability to combine both. His presentations involve audience participation and have been known
Engineers Ireland Steps & Maths Week 2022 Show: Steve Sherman Show (3rd & 4th Class/Year 5 & Year 6)
Engineers Ireland HQ 22 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4Join internationally acclaimed and multi-award purchasing presenter, Steve Sherman, for an Edutaining mathemagical show that will shine a new spotlight on maths and have students falling in love with maths. Be prepared to be wowed with his maths, his magic and his ability to combine both. His presentations involve audience participation and have been known
Linking Mathematics with Unplugged Coding Tralee (Primary Teachers)
Tralee Education CentreJoin the PDST Primary STEM team for Linking Mathematics with Unplugged Coding this October. Our 2-hour workshop will explore the links between unplugged coding, computational thinking and the Mathematics curriculum. The workshop will include practical ideas and resources that can be used at all class levels and in all school contexts. This course does not
Getting Ready for Maths Week |Members of IMTA, Cork|
Cork Education CentreA hands on workshop for members of the IMTA Cork primary and post primary teachers, exploring Maths Week activities that teachers can bring to their classroom Bookings can be made at: https://forms.gle/iERpVCxAcP1itCR69.
Getting Ready for Maths Week: IMTA Dublin |Teachers|
Moyle Park College Convent Rd, Clondalkin, Dublin22Looking for ideas for Maths Week activities? Have ideas and want to share them? Join IMTA Dublin Branch on Thursday 5 October at 7:30 Moyle Park College Clondalkin. Maths Week Ireland will take place this year from 14 – 22 October when schools all across the island celebrate maths. Last year 464,000 pupils from over
Getting Ready For Maths Week |Teachers: Primary & Post-Primary , Online Event|
ONLINE EventJoin us for the GETTING READY FOR MATHS WEEK - Online zoom event on 9th October at 5pm. for teachers: primary and post-primary. For more details and booking information
ChatGPT for Maths Teachers – Resource Creation Edition with Shannon Ahern
ONLINE EventIn this webinar we will explore the use of ChatGPT to create worksheets, problem sets, rich tasks, thematic exam style questions and more. Teachers will be able to : Use ChatGPT to generate maths problem sets Prompt ChatGPT to create themed exam-style questions Format the ChatGPT outputs into powerpoints and Worksheets This webinar is suitable
Visual and animated methods to present problem and puzzle solving, area, distance and measurement | Adult | Webinar
ONLINE EventJoin Tony Sweeney, Numeracy trainer, for a workshop for visual and animated methods to present problem and puzzle solving, area, distance and measurement. The webinar includes puzzles and problem-solving, which not only make learning fun but also give opportunities for incidental learning. There are also items to help students in their working lives and social activities.
Hamilton walk | General Public, Second level students and Staff, Third level students and Staff
Dunsink Observatory Castleknock, Dublin 15The walk commemorates Hamilton's famous creation of a strange new number system, called Quaternions, on the banks of the Royal Canal in Dublin on October 16, 1843. Quaternions now play a fundamental role in computer games and animation, special effects in movies, space navigation, physics, engineering and many other areas. The walk will retrace Hamilton's
Royal Irish Academy Hamilton Day lecture | General Public
Royal Irish Academy Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson St, Dublin, DublinJoin the Royal Irish Academy team for Hamilton Day on 16th October with Speaker Professor Wendelin Werner. A Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge, UK, for a session on "How surprisingly intricate are random structures?". Through this lecture, he will discuss how objects chosen randomly from a multitude of possibilities can exhibit unexpected
Rounding and approximation: Uses in real life including money and cooking (Levels 2 and 3) | Adult, Webinar|
ONLINE EventJoin Mary Reardon, a Learning Practitioner at Limerick and Clare ETB, for a workshop on Rounding and approximation. Rounding and approximation can be used to make everyday calculations simpler and data easier to understand. This webinar will look at some practical examples used in real life, showing why being exact with figures is not always the optimal way to do things!
How to Establish Positive Attitudes Towards Maths | Teachers
ONLINE EventIn this webinar, we will dissect and analyse an action research study which poses the task of improving attitude towards mathematics in primary school settings. The functions and procedures of working within the Action Research domain will be outlined and delivered from leaders and experts within this field and a conclusive plan of how implementing research into your classroom can ultimately improve teaching and learning.
Value for money: Comparing offers from three mobile phone companies | Adult, Online
ONLINE EventJoin Sheelagh Clowry a Maths Trainer for a webinar on Value for money. The webinar will look at three different bill-pay contracts and workout the total cost of each contract. Are initial low costs always the best offer in the long term?
Its Not Magic – It’s science you don’t see – Part 6 | Adults, Online
ONLINE EventAnother session of apparent magic that teaches basic science principles if you know what is happening! David, Adrian, Paul and Rute will bring you more examples that you can use in lessons, with others sharing some of their best examples too.
Teach Meet | Primary Teachers, Online
ONLINE EventA Teachmeet will take place on Wednesday 18th at 5pm, please register in advance as places are limited. You may register at the link here
Towards a New National Numeracy Strategy: Lessons from the literature – Dr Lorraine Harbison | Teachers
ONLINE EventIn this webinar, Dr Lorraine Harbison will share lessons from the literature on effective ways to develop and assess critical numeracy skills. She will also offer practical guidance and ideas applicable across all educational levels, from early years to post-primary.
Conquering Section B: Teaching Problem Solving in LC HL Maths with Shannon Ahren | Teachers
ONLINE EventIn this webinar, Shannon Ahren will discuss the importance of creating a classroom culture where discussion and mistake making is encouraged as well as present my tricks for improving students' attitudes towards problem-solving in maths. By the end of the webinar, teachers will have the tools they need to help their students succeed in Section B and beyond.
Maths Games to develop numeracy skills | Primary Teachers
ONLINE EventIn this session participants will get the opportunity to explore and use a variety of maths games, (including dice, playing cards, dominoes and spinners) that can be easily differentiated to be used with all classes of the primary school. We will also explore the benefits of a game-based paired maths project in schools and outline how such a project could be initiated.
Numeracy in the media: Identifying maths tasks in the news and media | Adult, Webinar
ONLINE EventJoin Dr Kathy O’Sullivan, a Lecturer in Mathematics Education from University College Galway for a webinar on Numeracy in the media. The webinar will look at identifying maths tasks in the news and media.
Making maths relevant: Planning and budgeting for real life events | Adult, Webinar
ONLINE EventJoin Elaine O’Brien and Sharon Doyle, Maths Teachers at Youthreach Blanchardstown, Dublin and Dun Laoghaire ETB for a webinar on Making Maths Relevant. This webinar is designed to help you answer these types of questions from your students: Why do I need to learn this? Why do we need algebra? When will I ever use this?