Audience: 5th class-1st year (ROI); Y6-Y8 (NI) This will be the third year of our Maths Week Mega Quiz. Originally created to reach out to more pupils across the country during the pandemic, this quiz has taken off as an annual Maths Week event, with 18,000 pupils participating last year. This year we hope to
Audience: 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 event booking
Audience: 1st and 2nd Years (ROI) Y8 & Y9 (NI) Dr Ken presents some of his favourite tricks revealing all the maths behind them – from card tricks, impossible volumes to virtual juggling patterns. For event booking please go to www.mathsweek.ie/2022/maths-week-tv-2022-booking-form/
Audience: 5th years Dr Shane Dowdall, Dundalk Grammer School – By Invitation only
Making 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
Audience: 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…
Audience: 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
Audience: Teachers Watch live on https://www.mathsweek.ie/2023/mathsweektv-secondary/ No one understands what makes students tick better than we teachers. Bobby shows how he uses his students’ interest in popular culture - football, Bake Off, Strictly, pop music and even - say it quietly - Love Island! to show where there is maths in all sorts of unexpected contexts. Booking:
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: Secondary students As part of the Maths Week 2020, the UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics will run the virtual event ''A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy of Mathematics''. The event will take place on Thursday 15/10 at 17.00 via zoom and it will consist of 5-minute presentations from academic members of our school. Its
