Enriching Mathematics Project - Tower Hamlets
Enriching Mathematics Project - Tower Hamlets
This Project, based in Tower Hamlets, will be funded for the year
2009 - 2010 by
More Maths
Grads and
Queen Mary,
University of London (QMUL) and is based on work which the
NRICH team began in 2002. It is a collaboration between Tower
Hamlets' Children's Services and NRICH.
The project has developed over the years and now focuses on working
with approximately forty Year 8 pupils from local schools. All
pupils come to fourteen after schools sessions on Wednesday
evenings throughout the year and work, alongside their teachers and
student ambassadors from QMUL on problem-solving activities. Each
session is led by a colleague from NRICH. In addition pupils (and
parents) are invited to visit Cambridge during Science week in the
Spring term and attend an "End of Year" celebration event at
QMUL.
Pupils at the celebration event in June
2008
Amongst the aims of the project we hope to:
- Provide engaging, innovative and challenging maths for able
students from disadvantaged backgrounds
- Enrich student learning in maths
- Develop pupils' mathematical and general problem solving and
reasoning skills.
- Increase students academic achievement
- Raise students aspirations
- Encourage and enable students to continue maths related study
into further / higher education Teachers (from up to seven
schools)
- Create professional development opportunities for maths
teachers
- Support teachers in introducing the approaches that they learn
from the NRICH team to their own classrooms/departments.