{"id":4560,"date":"2016-10-07T12:44:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T11:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/212.48.95.248\/greatfieldsschool.com\/?p=4560"},"modified":"2016-10-07T12:45:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T11:45:19","slug":"birkbeck-university-delivers-a-maths-masterclass-for-greatfields-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/?p=4560","title":{"rendered":"Birkbeck University delivers a maths masterclass for Greatfields students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Yesterday a group of Year 7 students visited Birkbeck university. The aim of the trip was to give the students the experience of being taught at a university by a maths professor and engaging them with high level mathematics. They were involved in various mathematical activities based on number sequences investigation. The students enjoyed investigating triangular number sequences, pyramid numbers, as well as fun investigations involving patterns sequences with Lego blocks and chocolate bars. The students represented Greatfields school immaculately, and the professor of mathematics at Birkbeck university is looking forward to working with the school again. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/212.48.95.248\/greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Birkbeck-trip-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4562\" src=\"http:\/\/212.48.95.248\/greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Birkbeck-trip-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"birkbeck-trip-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Birkbeck-trip-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Birkbeck-trip-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Birkbeck-trip-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/212.48.95.248\/greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Birkbeck-trip.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4563\" src=\"http:\/\/212.48.95.248\/greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Birkbeck-trip-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"birkbeck-trip\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Birkbeck-trip-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Birkbeck-trip-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Birkbeck-trip-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday a group of Year 7 students visited Birkbeck university. The aim of the trip was to give the students the experience of being taught at a university by a maths professor and engaging them with high level mathematics. They were involved in various mathematical activities based on number sequences investigation. The students enjoyed investigating triangular number sequences, pyramid numbers, as well as fun investigations involving patterns sequences with Lego blocks and chocolate bars. The students represented Greatfields school immaculately, and the professor of mathematics at Birkbeck university is looking forward to working with the school again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-publications"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4565,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions\/4565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}