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NRICH Teacher Newsletter - October 2016
Enriching mathematics
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In this Newsletter:
* NRICH Live Problems
* Latest Primary Features on NRICH
* Latest Secondary Features on NRICH
* NRICH Teacher Inspiration Programme 2016/17
* Primary Professional Development - Tell us what you think!
* Hello Everyone!
* New publication dates
* Meet the NRICH team
* Grant scheme for enriching maths teaching now open
* Maths Battles
* Thinking about running a Primary Maths club?
* National Young Mathematicians’ Award
* Spirit of Ramanujan competition for secondary students
* Contact Details
* Subscription Details
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* NRICH Live Problems *
How about encouraging your students to submit solutions to our latest
Live Problems? We always welcome solutions to our Live Problems, and we
aim to publish some of the best ones. Have you thought of sharing these
with your classes? Live problems are linked from our <a href="http://nrich.maths.org/teacher-primary">Primary</a>
and <a href="http://nrich.maths.org/teacher-secondary">Secondary</a>
home pages.
* Latest Primary Features on NRICH *
Early Year practitioners, do take a look at our new Early Years activity,
called Show Me, which encourages children to show you numbers in
different ways. Scroll down our <a href="http://nrich.maths.org/early-years">Early
Years Foundation Stage</a> page to the ‘Recently Published’ section in
order to find it.
Primary teachers, have you seen our latest feature, <a href="http://nrich.maths.org/12664">Hidden
Gems</a>? To celebrate NRICH’s 20th birthday, we have brought together
tasks from the website that you might not have come across before. The
chosen tasks might have gone unnoticed because they are very recently
published, or conversely because they are quite old, or even because
they are not so closely linked to the curriculum. However, all are rich
activities that will intrigue your learners and encourage them to think
mathematically.
* Latest Secondary Features on NRICH *
To celebrate NRICH's 20th birthday, we've taken a look back in the
archives and dusted off some problems from the early days, freshened
them up, and added some new ideas. The problems invite students to
explore, conjecture and generalise, and offer opportunities of gaining
new insights along the way. We hope your students will enjoy working on
these hidden treasures! The problems can be found <a href="http://nrich.maths.org/teacher-secondary">here</a>.
Do encourage your students to submit their solutions to the live
problems, and we will publish a selection in December.
Don't forget to check out the <a href="http://nrich.maths.org/9448">Recently
Solved Problems</a> to see if your students' solutions to our Angles and
Polygons feature have been published.
* NRICH Teacher Inspiration Programme 2016/17 *
This year we are running a free three-day professional development
programme for teachers of mathematics at Key Stages 3, 4 and 5. This
exciting opportunity includes three linked full-day events over the 2016/17
school year, on 13 January, 21 March and 11 July 2017.
The programme aims to support mathematics teachers who are committed to
nurturing confident, resourceful and enthusiastic learners. We will
explore effective strategies to:
Work with free, high-quality, engaging resources to meet the key aims of
the new curriculum.
Support and develop your students' mathematical confidence, resilience,
inquiry and reasoning.
Implement Ofsted's recommendation to increase problem-solving across the
curriculum.
Thanks to generous support from Trinity College, University of Cambridge,
we can offer free places to KS3, 4 and 5 mathematics teachers at
maintained sector schools/colleges in the UK. For more information and
to book places see <a href="http://nrich.maths.org/12896">here</a>.
* Primary Professional Development - Tell us what you think! *
We would like to ask for your input about the factors you consider when
looking for, or booking, professional development. This will help us in
reviewing our current programmes and planning new content to develop.
So please click <a href="http://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/VNXP9Y2">here</a>
to answer six brief questions and give us the benefit of your thoughts.
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* Hello Everyone! *
Welcome to our latest half termly newsletter. This edition is packed
with Hidden Gems, Live Problems and a whole host of locations where you
can meet up with the NRICH team this half term.
It’s NRICH’s 20th birthday and to mark the occasion we have published a
few Hidden Gems – problems that may have gone unnoticed but will engage
your students in mathematical thinking. We’re really looking forward to
hearing back from you about how your students have responded, so please
tweet your comments and photos @nrichmaths
* New publication dates *
You may have noticed that this half termly newsletter has arrived a
little earlier than usual. We’ve brought our publication date further
forward, in response to your feedback. We hope that the earlier date
will enable many of you to embed our latest NRICH offerings into your
planning for the next half term. There will also be a special edition of
the newsletter next month to launch our Advent calendars for 2016.
* Meet the NRICH team *
The NRICH team has a very busy programme of events over the next few
weeks. As well as our ongoing <a href="http://maths.org/roadshow">NRICH
Roadshow</a> events and professional development events for individual
schools, you can also meet members of the team at these upcoming events:
2nd November – <a href="http://nrich.maths.org/12854">NRICH Primary MaST
Day</a>, London
7th November – Birmingham Annual SENCO and Inclusion Conference
9th November – Matrix Maths Hub
12th November – <a href="http://www.m-a.org.uk/primary-events">MA
Primary Conference</a>
14th November – Prince’s Teaching Institute, Crewe
16th November – Worcestershire Maths Hub
16th/17th November – Tidal Teaching Schools Alliance
18th November – <a href="http://cprtrust.org.uk/conference/">Cambridge
Primary Review conference</a>, London
25th November – <a href="http://csapps.norfolk.gov.uk/csshared/ecourier2/fileoutput.asp?id=16353">Norfolk
Mathematics Conference</a>
29th November – South Yorkshire Maths Hub
7th December – National Young Mathematicians’ Award Final, Cambridge
* Grant scheme for enriching maths teaching now open *
The Royal Institution (Ri) is offering UK state schools grants of up to £500
to host a maths ‘enrichment and enhancement’ activity for their teachers
and students.
Funded by the Clothworkers’ Foundation, the scheme is designed to
integrate maths activities (such as shows, talks and workshops) into
school practice and to support teachers’ professional development.
Successful applicants will receive £500 towards any maths activity
listed on the STEM Directories as long as it is held between January and
July 2017.
Eligible state-funded schools, academies and FE colleges must complete
the <a href="http://www.stemdirectories.org.uk/grant_app/">online
application form</a> by the closing date: 30 October 2016.
For more information and to apply, visit the <a href="http://www.stemdirectories.org.uk/grant-scheme/">STEM
Directories website</a> or email [log in to unmask]
* Maths Battles *
<a href="http://wesolveproblems.org.uk/index.html">"We Solve Problems"</a>
is pleased to announce that Maths Battles will start weekly training
sessions at <a href="http://wesolveproblems.org.uk/uclolympiad.html
">University College London</a> on 29th October.
Information for teachers who want to start Maths Battles in their
schools is available <a href="http://wesolveproblems.org.uk/forteachers.html">here</a>.
A maths battle is a competition between two opposing teams. Similar to
sport activities, maths battles consist of weekly training sessions and
regular competitions ("battles") which are held every half term.''
* Thinking about running a Primary Maths club? *
If you’re thinking about running a Primary school Maths club, or want
ideas to reinvigorate your existing maths club, then why not visit <a
href="http://www.mayorsfundforlondon.org.uk/maths-club/">Count On Us
Maths</a>? This new website offers a wealth of ideas for Primary school
Maths clubs and is supported by the Mayor’s Fund for London. It features
inspirational case studies about Maths clubs and free resources for your
own club.
* National Young Mathematicians’ Award *
NRICH has worked with Explore Learning since 2010 to hold the annual
National Young Mathematicians’ Awards. Primary schools are invited to
enter a team of four children (two boys and two girls) from Year 6 or
below, and teams are judged on how well they use their problem-solving
skills to think like mathematicians and how well they work as a team.
The competition consists of three rounds, the first being a regional
knock-out on 8, 9 or 10 November, with winners going through to the semi
finals to win a place in the final, held at NRICH HQ in Cambridge. For
more information about how to enter, please see the <a href="http://www.explorelearning.co.uk/schools/national-young-mathematicians-awards/">Explore
Learning website</a>. If you would like to try out some of the past
challenges with your pupils, take a look at this <a href="http://nrich.maths.org/11538">feature</a>.
* Spirit of Ramanujan competition for secondary students *
If your students enjoy solving creative maths challenges then they might
be interested in the inaugural <a href="http://www.expii.com/ramanujan">Spirit
of Ramanujan Talent Initiative</a>. Expii, in conjunction with the team
behind the film “The Man Who Knew Infinity”, have launched the new
competition which ‘seeks to discover mathematical talent from around the
world, through creative challenges.’ The organisation offers funding for
students as they progress through the process, supported by the
Templeton World Charity Foundation. The closing date for the first round
of the competition is December 1st 2016.
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* Contact Details *
Centre for Mathematical Sciences
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