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Fashionable maths at Shoreham Academy
This project aimed to raise confidence and motivation levels in maths, amongst a small group of academically-able Year 9 girls. Through ‘fashion’ and costume design the girls explored everyday applications for maths. This included a range of processes such as measuring fabrics, budgeting for materials, pattern cutting and tessellations. Who was involved 12 Year 9…
Rocking Maths! at St Mark’s
Children and teachers from Years 5 and 6 worked a percussion musician to explore active, physical and musical approaches to learning maths, with the aim of making maths lessons more fun for everyone. Who was involved Year 5/6 children and teacher, Fran Malone, from St Mark’s Primary School, Brighton and Hove Creative practitioner: Ollie Tunmer…
Musical maths at Stanford Junior School
Children and percussionist and STOMP performer Ollie Tunmer explored active and fun ways of learning Maths through music. Children banged drums, choreographed movements, wrote raps and songs that helped them to remember facts about triangles, fractions and decimals and angles, and performed to parents at the end of the project. Who was involved Fifty children…
Investigating learning environments at Bexhill High
Students and teachers from Bexhill High collaborated with practitioners from a range of disciplines to redesign the ‘Discoveries’ curriculum, a cross curricular approach comprising science, maths and technology, and explore the potential of a new, state-of-the-art KS3 learning environment organised into 90-student learning pods. The work culminated in SpaceLab 2011, an interactive sharing event attended…