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Stage 2::[Featured Solution] Sort them out (2)
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Stage 1::[Featured Solution] Even and odd
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Motivate...
Mathematically based videoconferences for schools
- live link with a mathematical expert and other participating schools
- enrichment for students of all ages and their teachers
- cross-curricular topics
- highly interactive live videoconference sessions
Our objectives
- to enable schools to be part of the wider mathematical community
- to provide a range of resources on a variety of topics for students of all ages.
- to help schools set up and establish videoconferencing as a means of accessing high quality educational resources
Opportunities for students to:
- understand how maths relates to real life and other curriculum areas
- develop their own maths
- tell other participants about their work
- respond to questions from their peers and an expert
- find out what the others did with the same starting points
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Mysterious stocking filler for US physicists
Researchers working on the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment (CDMS) received an early Christmas gift last week when their detectors spotted evidence for the existence of dark matter, the mysterious substance that is believed to make up 25% of our Universe. The detectors, sitting half a mile underground in a disused mine in northern Minnesota, detected two events that may be results of dark matter particles bouncing off other atomic nuclei. It's the first time that such events were recorded by CDMS, and while they don't provide conclusive proof that dark matter exists, the detections have caused a stir in the scientific community.
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Happy 150th birthday to the Riemann Hypothesis - the most famous unsolved problem in mathematics
It has been 150 years since the mathematician Bernhard Riemann published the conjecture which is now one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics. The Riemann hypothesis encapsulates humankind's attempt to understand the mysteries of the primes: why there is no apparent pattern in the way the primes are distributed on the number line. The hypothesis is one of the Clay Mathematics Institute's Millennium Prize Problems — anyone who proves (or disproves) it will receive one million dollars.
If you'd like to have a go at solving the Riemann hypothesis yourself, then learn more about it in the Plus articles A whirlpool of numbers, The prime number lottery, and The music of the primes. To find out more about the Clay Institute Millennium Prize Problems, read How maths can make you rich and famous, Part I and Part II.
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Who Wants to Be A Mathionaire? (Cambridge Science Festival)
Explore the maths of probability, chance and uncertainty in this exciting and highly interactive game-show style quiz, using hand-held voting technology to answer against the clock!
The event will be run three times during the afternoon - session timings are:
12.30pm - 1.15 pm
1.45 pm - 2.30 pm
3.0 pm - 3.45 pm
Part of the Cambridge Science Festival. No need to pre-book but arrive in good time as places are limited.
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Hands-On Maths Fair (Cambridge Science Festival)
Hands-on games and puzzles from the Millennium Mathematics Project. Pit your wits against the SOMA cube, tangrams, Auntie's Tea Cups and giant dominoes, learn to play Go, and sharpen your strategic reasoning skills.
Part of the Cambridge Science Festival. No need to pre-book - drop in between 12 noon and 4pm.
