NRICH NQT Teacher Inspiration Day

Date: 
Wednesday, 4 July 2012 - 10:00am - 4:00pm

The NRICH Team at the University of Cambridge is offering a free professional development day in teaching mathematics for NQTs teaching in maintained sector primary or secondary schools/colleges in the UK, on 4 July 2012 .

On the day we will discuss issues such as include finding and using rich tasks to encourage questioning and discussion, and building both our own and our learners’ confidence.

Event full?: 
Places still available
Level additional information: 
Newly qualified teachers only

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NRICH Primary Mathematics Leaders Day

Date: 
Tuesday, 19 June 2012 - 10:00am - 4:00pm

NRICH is running a free professional development conference for mathematics leaders and specialists in primary schools.

Event full?: 
Full
Level additional information: 
MaST teachers and Mathematics Subject Leaders in maintained primary schools

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Stage 5::[Featured Solution] Particularly general

There were three nice solutions to this advanced problem concerning generic examples. Perhaps younger students might like to try to work through one of them, whereas older students might like to compare them. Read more.

The puzzle of time

Roger Penrose

Roger Penrose talks to us about the nature of time and his cyclic universe model.

Listen to The puzzle of time

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'SuperCooperators'

SuperCooperators: Evolution, altruism and human behaviour or Why we need each other to succeed

By Martin Nowak with Roger Highfield

Sometimes it doesn't feel like the world is a very nice place. The news is filled with war, political conflict, crime – it seems we just can't get along.

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Graph theory knits a torus

knit that torus

If you've never heard of cubic Hamiltonian graphs before then take a look at Christopher Manning's wonderful cubic Hamiltonian graph builder. No, really, do! We too had never heard of them and now we think they are the bee's knees!

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Stage 3::[Game] Diamond Collector

Collect as many diamonds as you can by drawing three straight lines. Read more.

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

Date: 
Tuesday, 12 June 2012 - 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Speaker: 
Dr James Grime

Alan Turing was one of our great 20th century mathematicians, and a pioneer of computer science. However, he may best be remembered as one of the leading code breakers of Bletchley Park during World War II. It was Turing's brilliant insights and mathematical mind that helped to break Enigma, the apparently unbreakable code used by the German military.

Level: 
General public
Level additional information: 
Ages 16+ and general public

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Stage 1::[Article] From objects and images to mathematical ideas

This article looks at how images, concrete apparatus and representations can help students develop deeper understandings of abstract mathematical ideas. Read more.