Volume 26 Issue 28 15 Sep 2017 24 Elul 5777

High School Mathematics

Michelle Lyons-Zwarenstein, Head of Mathematics

Numeracy Week 

National Numeracy Week helps to raise awareness of the importance of numeracy at school and beyond.
 
How many digits of Pi do you know? When you see a car’s numberplate, do you quickly add up the digits?
 
Did you follow the Pi Trail up to 1350 decimal places? Could you take on the STEAM Challenge? Did you help your House get points in the Sudoku, Ken-Ken, Rubik’s Cube Challenge?
 
On Thursday at lunchtime students competed in a challenge for Numeracy Week which involved having to work out the weight of hidden objects. They were not allowed to use scales or any other measuring devices. In teams, students came up with a variety of means to construct their own measuring devices using items of known weights such as their laptops. The winning team was a group of Year 7 students who was able to guess the weight of their box to within 58 grams. Their box weighed 1.195kg.
 
On Friday, the Interhouse Sudoku challenge took place. About 50 students gathered to represent their house numerically. A group of students took part in a Rubik’s Cube challenge, racing against the clock!
 
Thanks to Lara Joffe and Joshua Amoils for organising Numeracy Week events.