Maths Week London - Secondary School Workshops

Maths Week London will be returning during the 24th - 28th June 2024 - and we've got some great Maths workshops for London Schools - perfect for celebrating Maths in your school!

Maths Week London aims to raise the profile of maths in the London community, improve children’s attitude towards maths and promote the value of maths as an essential skill.

Workshops include:

CSI: Michaela Maths - Using a range of mathematical skills to solve a dastardly crime  
Setting students the challenge of calculating which of six suspects tried to murder the country’s best woman football player. This workshop takes a “generalistic” approach to the maths curriculum and is available in differentiated formats across KS3 and KS4. Each workshop requires a minimum of an hour.

CSI: Bake Off - Using the fuel of fractions (and, for older pupils, percentages) to clear up some trouble in the kitchen 
The baking world has been rocked to its core by an attempt on the life of one of the nation’s best known celebrity chefs. And students will have to use their knowledge of and skills with fractions, ratios and percentages to differentiate the innocent from the guilty. This workshop is available in differentiated formats across KS3 and KS4 with each workshop requiring a minimum of 75 minutes.

The Priorities Game
While the little village of Amberton has been hit hard by the public health crisis, change is in the air – as funding has been found for an important community initiative. It’s up to your students, though, to represent different interest groups – and work out exactly how the cash should be apportioned! This popular workshop is available in differentiated formats across KS3 and KS4, with each workshop requiring a minimum of 60 minutes.

The Bunker
The universal language that unites mathematicians all over the world is the language of patterns. This workshop explores that language by setting students the challenged of working their way through a series of increasingly complex codes, cracking them as they go along. This workshop is available in differentiated formats across KS3 and KS4, with each workshop requiring a minimum of 60 minutes.

The Trading Game 
The Trading Game provides students with opportunities to think about maths in some very different ways. Working in an ever-shifting environment, they’ll come to understand that “value” can be a concept that changes depending on circumstances, that the ability to prioritise is an essential mathematical skill, and that the properties of 2D shapes allow them to be arranged in a variety of ways. And while the Game has its own intrinsic merit, of course, its greater value lies in the follow-up – where students are facilitated through a process allowing them to identify and categorise the skills they have had to use.

Fast, furious and fantastically engaging, The Trading Game workshop can accommodate up to 60 pupils at a time and can last anything from an hour to half a day. 

Big Maths Activity Days
Big Maths Days are a fantastic way of generating a real “maths” buzz” about the school, providing an active testament to students, teachers and parents alike of the importance that the school attaches to maths. Up to 300 students will carousel around a number of very different creative Maths workshops in the course of one day. Workshops can include:

CSI: Maths

Selling Maths

The Priorities Game

Number Patterns: The Bunker

The Trading Game

The Expedition

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