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.



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.