Fun Maths workshops for Primary Schools

Brainwave Education offers fun and interactive maths workshops for primary schools across the UK. Within our workshops we use carefully designed balls and rods, which allow children to create large 2D and 3D shapes from a basic cube to octahedrons and even an icosahedron (20 sided polyhedron). Using this equipment allows children to visualise and explore maths in away that are not normally possible. By using shapes we can explore their properties, area, volume, fractions, measurements (standard and non standard) and arithmetic.

The workshops engage children in maths within a fun and "safe" environment. A range of problem solving games is used where wrong answers are required to take the next step to the solution. Knowing that we will need to make mistakes to learn creates a "safe" environment for children to let their imagination take the lead and not be afraid of getting it wrong. Our Ethos is there are no wrong answers, only pathways of learning.

Fun, engaging and interactive maths workshops

Our fun workshops are delivered by the character Professor Brainwave who expertly balances the level of fun and learning throughout, ensuring the children are engaged at all times. We have individual workshops to cover the ability of nursery, KS1 and KS2 students. Sessions are offered from one hour to a full day and workshops can be from 30 min to 2 hours. A clear pricing structure is in place with no hidden costs. A price match promise and a 100% money back guarantee is offered.

Key Stage 1

Pupils are faced with problems to solve that often cannot be solved without making mistakes and learning from them. They will use the hands on equipment to make 2D and 3D shapes from cubes to pyramids to solve problems and create structures that will help students in subsequent workshops. Through the journey of discovery they will cover:

• 2D shapes and their properties

• Doubling, estimating and sorting

• Making 3D shapes from 2D shapes

• Looking at angles and basic fractions

• Problem solving and visualisation

• Mental arithmetic

Key Stage 2

Children are put into small teams to solve problems using 2D shapes that encourage freethinking, as there are no "wrong answers". Through collective learning and solving the problems we move onto creating a hidden 3D structure within a tetrahedron. Skills that the children will cover are:

    • Fractions, multiplying, doubling and subtraction

    • Number sequences

    • Calculating and estimating area and volume

    • Examining the properties of 3D shapes and how they interact                    

    • Converting between units

   • Teamwork and confidence building

Family Fun

I offer FUN family workshops that bring everyone together in the joy of learning! If the children have attended a workshop during the day they are given the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned before moving onto working together to solve new challenges. If a family workshop is booked as a one off event, parents will work closely with their children to solve problems and create 3D structures.

This is a great opportunity to reach out to parents and allow them to have an insight into understanding how their children tackle problems and learn.

Guarantee

If you are not satisfied for any reason at the end of a day’s workshop then there will be a full refund. No quibbles. I am very confident that I will never have to fulfill this guarantee, I hope that it gives you confidence in the quality as well as peace of mind.

Price match

Simply put if you receive a quote from another provider that is offering a similar service at a lower price I will match it. I never want the price to exclude a school from having a fantastic maths experience. All you need to do is supply the official quote from the other provider.

Holding a maths workshop with Brainwave Education will ignite enthusiasm for Maths. Children will come away with confidence to take problems head on as they will have experienced the process of making mistakes and learning from them. 

Throughout the workshops pupils will have used existing mathematical knowledge and acquired skills in problem solving and learnt about geometry including, 2d and 3d shapes and their properties, volume and area, symmetry, fractions, doubling, measuring (standard and no standard) as well as the language of geometry.

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