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
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
Loving Maths
OnlineThis year we are delighted to have teamed up with master storyteller, Steve Sherman, the chief imagination officer of Livingmaths.com for an adventure designed specifically for pre-school children and 3-6 year olds. You are invited to take part in 5 exciting episodes in the Loving Maths series. Children will be introduced to mathematical concepts and
The Code of Kells – Happy Maths Workshops
The Code of Kells - Happy Maths Workshops with the Adapt Research Centre, runs from the 12th to the 13th of October over a range of different times and locations. These workshops are targeted towards 4th,5th and 6th class students. See below all dates, times and locations: DCU Celbridge Library, Co. Dublin - Tuesday 12th
Inspiring Ireland, Inspiring Students
OnlineDr. Fidelma Healy Eames, Study and Careers, is delighted to announce that the next 'Inspiring Ireland Inspiring Students' interview, in collaboration with Education Support Centres Ireland (ESCI) will be with Dr. Aoibhinn Ní Shuilleabháin, assistant professor of maths (UCD). A maths guru and a huge supporter of STEM, Aoibhinn will be interviewed during Maths Week.
Maths Week
Island of IrelandMaths Week Ireland is an all-island initiative and a partnership of institutions and groups promoting positive attitudes towards maths and highlighting the importance of maths in our lives since 2006. It is coordinated by Calmast at WIT. It is one of four national STEM festivals. Running for 15 years as a collaborative partnership of
Conference on Research in Mathematics Education in Ireland
OnlineThe Conference on Research in Mathematics Education in Ireland (MEI) is a biennial conference, first hosted by St Patrick's College, Drumcondra and now by Dublin City University (DCU) in Ireland's first Institute of Education at DCU St Patrick's Campus. Beginning in 2005, MEI has a proud tradition of creating a stage for sharing ideas and
Mathematics World Cup
ONLINE EventThe Mathematics World Cup is a free global competition for children aged 7-11. It combines mathematics, movement and mindfulness in a 45-minute session to improve childrens' physical health, mental health and engagement with maths. Teachers can take part at any time that is convenient for them between the 16th and 22nd of October. Register here.
Hamilton Day
OnlineHamilton Day Hamilton Day commemorates a ground-breaking discovery by one of Ireland’s most famous scientist. On 16 October 1843, William Rowan Hamilton discovered quaternion algebra, while walking along the Royal Canal from Dunsink Observatory to the Royal Irish Academy (RIA). This was one of those very rare Eureka moments in the history of science. So excited was