Audience: Primary School In celebration of Maths Week 2019, Mary Immaculate College is delighted to host Bubbly Maths with Caroline Ainslie. Caroline will perform her 45-minute maths show using magical soap bubbles and giant balloons to illustrate the mathematical fundamentals of shape, space and measurements. Children will learn mathematics without even realising it! Venue: New
Audience: Primary upper cycle. Our brains have evolved to do maths and we are all natural mathematicians. Join psychologist James Soper to learn what maths tells us about our brains and how we can make our brains better at maths. Date: Wednesday 16th October 2019 Times: 10:00am – 11:00am Location: Emo National School, Emo, Portlaoise,
The team from the Maths Museum of Catalonia will deliver maths workshops on problem solving and puzzles to 5th and 6th class primary school pupils – run by retired maths teacher Guido Ramellini and a team of volunteers. The museum has a permanent exhibition of Mathematical Experiences and provides guided tours and workshops for school groups.
Audience: Transition Year, Secondary Senior Cycle Explore maths and art together in this exciting workshop, brought to you from the House of Maths and Computer Science, Lyons. This interactive workshop explores the use of maths and symmetry in the decorative art on the Ardagh Chalice and wonderful illustrations of the Book of Kells and opens
Audience: Primary 4th - 6th. Connected Classsrooms is an event which connects students in Ireland with their counterparts in South Africa. Up to 50 schools can take part live via Skype, they will need a Skype account, a webcam and a microphone. Audience: Audience: Primary 4th - 6th Date: 16th October 2019 Time: 10:00am Venue:
Audience: Senior infants; 3rd Class; 5th Class; 6th Class. Dr. Fernando Blasco is a mathematician and lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, interested in recreational maths and magic. He uses magic to introduce the public to topics such as prime numbers, knot theory, sudoku, topology, number systems, mind games, calendars or quick calculations. He
Audience: TY and senior Cycle Secondary school. Isaac Newton was arguably the foremost mathematician of his time and one of the greatest scientists of all time. In this presentation, we will explore how he applied mathematics to help explain motion and gravity. These laws, dating from 1687, established the bedrock for our understanding of the
Audience: Age group: 4th &/ 5th Class pupils. Stranmillis University College Belfast is pleased to host maths workshops led by maths educator Douglas Buchanan for Maths Week 2019. These one-hour long workshops are intended for Fourth and Fifth Class primary school pupils. Dougs workshops give participants the opportunity to solve various puzzles working in pairs
Audience: Post Primary schools. Colin Wright brings his spectacular juggling show to the University of Limerick as part of the Maths Week 2019 festival. Juggling has fascinated people for centuries. Seemingly oblivious to gravity, the skilled practitioner will keep several objects in the air at one time, and weave complex patterns that seem to defy
Audience: Public. The Maths of Climate Change and Weather Forecasting – Dr Alan Hally, with introduction from Evelyn Cusack Met Éireann. Climate change poses a threat to human lives, livelihoods and lifestyles across the globe. The scientific community are in agreement that it is taking place and that human activity is responsible. Scientists make predictions
