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Maths SC Booklet The Super Curriculum Mathema'cs The Super Curriculum Super curricular activities are those that take your regular curriculum further. They take the subjects you study in the classroom beyond that which your teacher has taught you or what you’ve done for home learning. For example, you may go into more depth on something you picked up in the classroom, or learn about a new topic altogether. These activities are normally in the form of extra reading but they can take many other forms, like watching videos online, downloading podcasts, attending lectures, visiting museums or entering academic competitions. Engaging in super curricular activities will help you develop a love for your favourite subject or subjects. In this booklet, there are a range of activities, suggested by your teachers. They are by no means exhaustive lists but should get you started. I would encourage you to share ideas and opportunities you come across with your teachers so that, over time, the recommended activities in this booklet can grow. In the future, employers or universities will be interested to hear about what super curricular activities you have engaged in; they will be interested in what you have learnt and impressed by your efforts. I wish you well in your pursuit of super curricular activities! Dr Caroline Creaby Deputy Headteacher: Curriculum Super Curriculum – Year 7 Subject: MATHEMATICS So you think you’ve got Hidden Figures, by Margot Wild Maths – explore, problems?’, by Alex Bellos. Lee Shetterly imagine, experiment, create! Surprising and rewarding The story of the African-American puzzles to sharpen your mind. Mathematicians of NASA who helped Try and explore one of the America win the Space Race. games from the nrich site: Read the book and watch the film. http://wild.maths.org/ Read ‘100 essential things King’s College London Research Pythagoras and the maths he explored you didn’t know about Visit KCL site and attempt the Maths and the Arts’, by John D weekly challenge competitions Find out about his contributions to Barrow. modern Mathematics. Use this timeline to see how mathematicians What can you create from the https://www.kingsmathsschool.co “Stand on the Shoulders of Giants” book? m/weekly-maths-challenge https://mathigon.org/timeline/ Create tangrams using Science Museum STEM Centre Stevenage the online tool Maths Gallery Visit the Stem Discovery Centre https://mathigon.org/tangram Visit the maths gallery in the in Stevenage Science Museum, London You can also make the shapes http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk https://stemdiscoverycentre.co. out of paper. What other pictures /see-and-do/mathematics-winton- uk can you make? gallery?keywords=mathematics Watch ‘The Man Who Simon Singh’s Numbers A Brief History of Knew Infinity’, starring Dev Mathematics, a BBC Radio 4 Listen to 5 BBC Radio 4 podcasts podcast by Marcus du Sautoy Patel on ‘special numbers’ Enjoy the biography based drama Listen to all 10 episodes about the mathematician Srinivasa https://www.bbc.co.uk/program https://www.bbc.co.uk/program Ramanujan. mes/p00cl746/episodes/player mes/b00srz5b/episodes/player Research the mathematics Watch BBC Teach: The Maths Research Homer Hickman. of magic. Show with Matt Parker Read his biography Rocket Boys. Watch the movie October Sky Many magic tricks are based on https://www.youtube.com/playlis starring Jake Gyllenhaal. mathematics. What magic tricks t?list=PLcvEcrsF_9zKTfYVSyNpNGj can you find? Try them out on ewbf4lmpIs Learn how the son of a coal your friends! miner designed the space shuttle for NASA. Reading task Writing task Listening task Watching task Research task Trip or visit Creative task Student-led task Super Curriculum – Year 8 Subject: MATHEMATICS Alex’s Adventures in Humble Pi – a comedy of Numberland, by Alex Bellos maths errors, by Matt Parker Explore problems from nrich.maths, including: Read an exhilarating cocktail Read real life stories about how Mathematical art of history, reportage and maths goes wrong with real world mathematical proofs that will consequences by mathmagician https://nrich.maths.org/secondary leave you awestruck. Matt Parker. https://nrich.maths.org/public/to pic.php?group_id=48&code=-405 Design a house or a Transum King’s College London school. Produce a full scale drawing, Test yourself against the Visit KCL site and attempt the calculate area and show all the computer or each other in weekly challenge competitions. relevant measurements. Complete games of strategy. the task by creating a paper or https://www.kingsmathsschool.com cardboard model. https://www.transum.org/Sof /weekly-maths-challenge tware/Game/ Bletchley Park Science Museum – Maths Read articles, investigate Gallery problems, get creative and plan V isit Bletchley Park to explore visits. Everything mathematical! the world of coding and maths. 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(Animation at Pixar) Listen to 5 BBC Radio 4 podcasts Watch ‘The Imitation on ‘special numbers’ Game’, https://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=mX0NB9IyYpU and read the book of the https://www.bbc.co.uk/programm same name, about his es/p00cl746/episodes/player There are lots of numberphile clips you involvement in code breaking of can watch! Enigma Read the book and watch the Reading task Writing taskmovie starring Benedict Cumberbatch Listening task Watching task Research task Trip or visit Creative task Student -led task Super Curriculum – Year 9 Subject: MATHEMATICS How Not to Be Wrong: The Simpsons and their This is not a Maths Book, by The Hidden Maths of mathematical secrets, by Simon Anna Weltman Everyday Life, by Jordan Singh Ellenberg. A fusion of maths and art/drawing. See how a writing team of Discover how maths touches on mathematicians include everything we do, and a little Work through fun drawing mathematical knowledge reveals the mathematics within this popular hidden structures that lie beneath the animation. challenges with a mathematical world's messy and chaotic surface. basis. Research Srinivasa Wild Maths – explore, Sign up to Parallel and Ramanujan imagine, experiment, create! receive a weekly maths challenge Find out about his contributions to to complete. Try and explore one of the games modern Mathematics. Use this timeline to see how mathematicians from the nrich site: “Stand on the Shoulders of Giants” https://parallel.org.uk/ http://wild.maths.org/ https://mathigon.org/timeline/ Hidden Figures, by Margot STEM Centre Stevenage Can you draw an impossible triangle? Watch the clip to help. 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Listen to Travels in a Watch the movie ‘A Beautiful Listen to A Brief History of Mathematical World Mind’, starring Russell Crowe, Mathematics, a BBC Radio 4 podcast, by Peter Rowlett - directed by Ron Howard. podcast by Marcus du Sautoy featuring mathematicians talking about their work as well Research the mathematical Listen to all 10 episodes as features on maths history genius of John Forbes Nash Jr. https://www.bbc.co.uk/program and maths news; mes/b00srz5b/episodes/player http://www.travelsinamathemat icalworld.co.uk/ Research prime Science Museum Explore problems from numbers by watching clips Maths Gallery nrich.maths, including: of numberphile Visit the maths gallery in the Science Mathematical art https://www.youtube.com/pl Museum, London. https://nrich.maths.org/secondary aylist?list=PL0D0BD149128Bb http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see- and-do/mathematics-winton- https://nrich.maths.org/public/to 06F gallery?keywords=mathematics pic.php?group_id=48&code=-405 Reading task Writing task Listening task Watching task Research task Trip or visit Creative task Student-led task Super Curriculum – Year 10 Subject: MATHEMATICS Why do buses come in What is Mathematics? 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