Super Curriculum: Maths
Read
‘Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities’ by Ian Stewart
‘The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets’ by Simon Singh
Activity: Write a 250-word summary of what you have read
Watch
Watch ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’, starring Dev Patel. Write a 250-word summary on this biography-based drama about the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Watch ‘The Imitation Game’, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Write a 250-word summary on this biography-based drama about Alan Turing, who made significant contributions in the field of mathematics and cryptography during WWII.
Listen
Listen to ‘A brief history of Mathematics’ on BBC sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00stcgv by Marcus du Sautoy, and write a 250-word summary on it
Listen to 5 BBC Radio 4 podcasts on ‘Special Numbers’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00cl73s by Simon Singh, and write a 250-word summary on one of the podcasts
Do
Solve Tangram Puzzles on https://polypad.amplify.com/tangram
Copy and paste screenshots of solutions on Word/Powerpoint
Try questions from a Junior Maths Challenge paper. Present your answers with workings.
https://ukmt.org.uk/junior-challenges/junior-mathematical-challenge
