Welcome to the September 2022 Newsletter!
 

Maths Week is just around the corner and this newsletter has lot's of events, activities and ideas for you for Maths Week but there will be more to come so remember to keep checking the website for as we will be adding new events from our partners all over the island. You can also go to the resources section to help you celebrate Maths Week in your own school.

We now have over 150,000 already registered for Maths Week and this number will be increasing all the way up to Maths Week itself! Don't forget to register your school on our website!

Our 2022 posters should have arrived at schools all over the country by now, and we hope you enjoy them! You can access digital copies of the posters here.

If any teachers or mathematicians would like to share resources through Maths Week website, or have any news for inclusion (we are particularly keen on getting more news from Northern Ireland) please get in touch at mathsweek.wd@setu.ie

We really hope you enjoy this coming Maths Week, we have lot's to share!

Mark McDonald,
Maths Week Ireland 

In this issue:

• Registration
• Competitions and Activities
• Resources for Ukrainian pupils
• Events Calendar
• Events for Teachers

 

Maths Week 2022 Registration
 

 

 

Register Here on the website:



Maths Week Registration

 

 

 

Target Boards (Primary)

Target Boards are a great fun way for your class to practice arithmetic during Maths Week. Pupils won’t even realise they are working! There is a senior section for upper primary schools and a junior section for younger pupils.

Target Boards will run every Friday (8:30 to 14:30) until Maths Week. Another campaign will begin on 17 October and run each day for Maths Week. Make sure to sign up to get your school on the leader board!

For more information click here
 

How to play

Participants are given a set of 9 numbers. Using any of these numbers (only once in each expression) and the four operators (+, -, *, /) find out how many expressions you can make that equate to the target number. The more the better!

The operators are

+ addition

– Subtraction

* Multiplication

/ Division

You must use * for multiplication and / for division. You can also group parts of the expression using brackets ( ).

Examples

1+2+3 = 6

1+2*3 = 7

(1+2)*3 = 9

 

Maths Week 2022 Olympiad
0ctober 17 - October 24

All Schools (Senior Infants (Year 2) to 3rd Year (Year 11))


 

Following on from the success of 2021, The Maths Week 2021 Olympiad is an innovative event held in collaboration with Living Maths in South Africa. Its primary focus is to empower teachers and learners to find creative and concrete ways to help improve the standard of Maths in schools. We realise the importance of encouraging as many learners as possible to have a positive experience with maths so that they continue to make maths a subject choice as they go through their education. We are delighted to be working with Living Maths; a member of ASTEMI.co.za – the official body that represents STEM competitions in South Africa.

We have two sets of papers, one for Northern Ireland and one for the Republic. The Olympiad includes question papers for all classes primary and secondary. This is the only Olympiad of its kind (in the world) to cater for the foundation phase. The papers consist of 20 questions and 5 bonus questions. Every learner that takes part will receive a certificate (either bronze, silver or gold included in the online folder) for achieving marks from 1-20 out of 20. Any marks higher than 20 will receive a platinum certificate.

Find out more on the Maths Week 2022 Olympiad.

To register your interest in this year’s Olympiad with papers suitable from Senior Infants (Year 2) to 3rd Year (Year 11) please complete This Form.

Maths Poetry Competion: Write us a pi-ku 

(Junior Secondary)
 

A pi-ku is a poem that takes the form of a haiku, but uses the digits of pi (3.14159...) instead of the usual 5-7-5 pattern.

You can use the digits of pi as the number of letters, syllables, or words per line.

Your pi-ku should be about the magic of maths!

Deadline for entry: Friday 23/10/2022

Winners selected: Wednesday 02/11/2022

Open to: 1st-3rd year secondary school
 

Example:

3 Maths ma-gic

1 How?

4 Maths Week Ire-land!

For more information and to submit your poem check out this link. 

Munster Maths and Science Fair October 16

(All Ages)
 

The Munster Maths and Science fair takes place on Sunday the 16th of October at the Mallow GAA Sports Complex from 11am to 4pm. This will be a great opportunity for the whole family to learn about Maths and Science!
 

Hamilton Walk October 16

(Adults / secondary schools)

Booking is essential with Fiacre Ó Cairbre at (01) 8223880

When: October 16 at 1 p.m.

Where: Dunsink Observatory, Dublin 15.

Audience: The general public, second level students and staff, third level students and staff.

Description: The 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 steps from Dunsink Observatory to Broombridge in Cabra where he had his Eureka moment. Hamilton performed a piece of mathematical graffiti by scratching his quaternion formulas on the canal bridge. In an act of mathematical vandalism, Hamilton opened up a whole new mathematical landscape where mathematicians could now feel free to conceive new algebraic number systems that were not shackled by the rules of ordinary numbers in arithmetic. Hamilton freed algebra from arithmetic and he was called the Liberator of Algebra.

 

Maths Meets Conference


 

 

 

Linking Mathematics with Unplugged Coding
 

Maths Week 2022: Let's Visit Numberland!

Resources for Ukrainian Pupils

 

We have translated some of our resources into Ukrainian to support young Ukrainian refugees. These are in Ukrainian and English, so they can help with maths and language skills. 
You can print them out and laminate them and then they can be wiped clean and reused. 
You can find them here

We also have these resources in Arabic 
Hello and welcome to the Maths Week Ireland website.
مرحبا و أهلاً إلى موقع إسبوع الرياضيات في أيرلندا

Young Scientist winners take top prize at EU contest with Maths Project

Aditya Kumar and Aditya Joshi took first prize at the European Union Contest for Young Scientists.

THE WINNERS OF this year’s BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition have won the top prize at the European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS).

Aditya Kumar and Aditya Joshi, students in Synge Street CBS in Dublin won with their project “A New Method of Solving the Bernoulli Quadrisection Problem”, which proposed a new approach to a mathematical problem unsolved since the 17th century and put forward ways in which it could be applied to contemporary engineering challenges.

You can read the full article here: