{"id":4868,"date":"2017-03-28T07:29:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T06:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2017-03-28T07:29:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T06:29:46","slug":"maths-masterclass-at-birkbeck-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/?p=4868","title":{"rendered":"Maths Masterclass at Birkbeck University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of students visited Birkbeck University for the second time this year to spend the day with Professor Sarah Hart, a professor of Maths at the university. The purpose of this collaboration is to give some of our students the opportunity to\u00a0explore maths beyond the classroom and hopefully to inspire some of them to study maths at A-Level, university and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0students enjoyed exploring Euler\u2019s formula for 2D and 3D shapes. The\u00a0students investigating the faces, vertices and edges of polygons and polyhedrons.\u00a0All this originated from the seven bridges of Konigsberg, which is an historically notable mathematical problem.<\/p>\n<p>This session enabled the students to develop their\u00a0problem solving aspect of mathematics, where rather than just answering a mathematical question, they identify the problem, draw out the problem, look for patterns then develop a plan to solve the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks must go to Professor Sarah Hart for giving up her time to work with our students once again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Birkbeck-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4870\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Birkbeck-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Birkbeck-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Birkbeck-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Birkbeck-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Birkbeck-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4871\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Birkbeck-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Birkbeck-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Birkbeck-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Birkbeck-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Birkbeck-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4872\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Birkbeck-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Birkbeck-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Birkbeck-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Birkbeck-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of students visited Birkbeck University for the second time this year to spend the day with Professor Sarah Hart, a professor of Maths at the university. The purpose of this collaboration is to give some of our students the opportunity to\u00a0explore maths beyond the classroom and hopefully to inspire some of them to study maths at A-Level, university and beyond. The\u00a0students enjoyed exploring Euler\u2019s formula for 2D and 3D shapes. The\u00a0students investigating the faces, vertices and edges of polygons and polyhedrons.\u00a0All this originated from the seven bridges of Konigsberg, which is an historically notable mathematical problem. This session enabled the students to develop their\u00a0problem solving aspect of mathematics, where rather than just answering a mathematical question, they identify the problem, draw out the problem, look for patterns then develop a plan to solve the problem. Many thanks must go to Professor Sarah Hart for giving up her time to work with our students once 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-4868","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\/4868"}],"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=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4873,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions\/4873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}