Subject: | | Themes for Maths Year 2000 |
From: | | "John Bibby, QED/MatheMagic (York, England), maths popularisers" <[log in to unmask]> |
Reply-To: | | John Bibby, QED/MatheMagic (York, England), maths popularisers |
Date: | | Wed, 7 Jul 1999 07:13:56 +0100 |
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Richard Mankewicz and I have been asked to work with Maths Year 2000. This
is the government sponsored project - part of World Mathematical Year 2000 -
which will raise the profile of mathematics nationwide next year.
I will circulate further details of MY2000 fairly soon. However, initially I
would welcome your comments on the following message from Barry Lewis, the
Project Director:
"As you know the National Year of Reading created a set of themes for its
year
to provide a focus for its publicity and the means to continually re-invent
itself.
"We are proposing that there should be fewer themes for the year rather
than
the 12 adopted by NYR. ... (A) better number is 6. This provides one theme
for each half term in a school, and a two month concentration in the media
to get our message across
"The following themes are a starting point :
Money Counts
Sport
Careers
Holidays
Maths around us
Statistics.
Music
Cookery
Fashion
"We propose giving the list wide circulation and assembling the final list
(of 6 themes)
from the responses."
Can I ask you to respond to me and to pass it on to any others who might
wish to contribute?
Thank you
JOHN BIBBY
QED/MatheMagic
1 Straylands Grove
York YO31 1EB
Tel: 01904-424242 Fax: 01904-424381 Email: [log in to unmask]
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