Audience: Age 15 years+; TY 5th and 6th year (ROI); Y12-Y14 (NI) and Adult Einstein's Relativity - Pythagoras for Space and Time Join Dr Ian Jubb of DIAS and discover how Einstein's theory of relativity opened up a whole new world of understanding and exploration. Einstein's Theory of Relativity revolutionised the way we understand the
Audience: 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
Can Maths Be Fun? Audience: Suitable for 4th, 5th, 6th Class groups. The journey for young puzzle pirates takes the young mathematicians to the world of puzzling. The mixture of activities brings about predictability, surprise, wonderment and the feeling of self-satisfaction. The young mathematicians will participate in different mathematical tasks as they go along. Samples
Can Maths Be Fun? Audience: Suitable for 4th, 5th, 6th Class groups. The journey for young puzzle pirates takes the young mathematicians to the world of puzzling. The mixture of activities brings about predictability, surprise, wonderment and the feeling of self-satisfaction. The young mathematicians will participate in different mathematical tasks as they go along. Samples
Audience: Maths Educators. This workshop on using free maths software “Geogebra” to create infinitely looping animations is a fantastic opportunity to integrate Art into your STEAM toolkit. Students from Fine Art in NCAD will work collaboratively with maths educators to learn how to create visually appealing and interesting animations using mathematical objects and functions. Co-hosted
Audience: 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
Audience: Primary 4th class. Kjartan Poskitt, best-selling author of the Murderous Maths book series, brings his fun filled show to WIT in what promises to be a thrilling spectacle for primary fourth to sixth classes! Kjartan previously worked in TV where he wrote and presented for Anne Wood (creator of the Teletubbies) and fans of
Audience: Primary 5th and 6th class. Kjartan Poskitt, best-selling author of the Murderous Maths book series, brings his fun filled show to WIT in what promises to be a thrilling spectacle for primary fourth to sixth classes! Kjartan previously worked in TV where he wrote and presented for Anne Wood (creator of the Teletubbies) and
Audience: Adults. Bright Club brings researchers and comedians together in an explosion of comedy, music, and ideas: a true variety night for lateral minds. This event will include an Irish Sign Language interpreter for all acts, and is running as part of Maths Week Ireland. Featuring performances by: Jim Elliott as headliner! Lucy Nyland Claire
Audience: 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
