Reading Tasks
Reading Tasks
Read So you think you’ve got problems?’, by Alex Bellos. Surprising and rewarding puzzles to sharpen your mind.
Available in the LRC.
Read Hidden Figures by by Margot Lee Shetterly. The story of the African-American Mathematicians of NASA who helped America win the Space Race. Read the book and watch the film.
Available in the LRC.
100 essential things you didn’t know about Maths and the Arts
Read ‘100 essential things you didn’t know about Maths and the Arts’, by John D Barrow.
Listening Tasks
Simon Singh’s Numbers
Listen to 5 BBC Radio 4 podcasts on ‘special numbers’
A Brief History of Mathematics
A BBC Radio 4 podcast by Marcus du Sautoy Listen to all 10 episodes.
Watching Tasks
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Watch ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’, starring Dev Patel. Enjoy the biography based drama about the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
The Maths Show with Matt Parker
Watch BBC Teach: The Maths Show with Matt Parker
Research Tasks
Find out about his contributions to modern Mathematics. Use this timeline to see how mathematicians “Stand on the Shoulders of Giants”
Many magic tricks are based on mathematics. What magic tricks can you find? Try them out on your friends!
Research Homer Hickman. Read his biography Rocket Boys. Watch the movie October Sky starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Learn how the son of a coal miner designed the space shuttle for NASA.
Trips & Visits
Visit the maths gallery in the Science Museum, London
Visit the Stem Discovery Centre in Stevenage
Creative Tasks
Create tangrams using this online tool. You can also make the shapes out of paper. What other pictures can you make?
Student Led Tasks
Visit KCL site and attempt the weekly challenge competitions.
Wild Maths – explore, imagine, experiment, create! Try and explore one of the games from the nrich site.