Ideas

=Ideas=

Use this page to write about any ideas you have about recreating the show or related spin off ideas inspired by the show. Remember to use the discussion tab to comment on other peoples entries. // As a teacher educator I am now keen to share my experiences of the exhibition with the students I teach so that they can take the idea and use it in schools. This way they will engage children in more meaningful maths in the classroom. Already I have shared this with a whole cohort of 115 Y3 trainees and intend to do the same with each cohort that comes through. We looked at a short video clip of the exhibition that I found on Utube and then had a look at some of the photos I had taken before discussing the maths needed to create the piles of rice. They all agreed that it was such a simple idea and yet it had great potential for some inspiring work in school. The nice thing about sharing this with a cohort of trainees is that they then take the idea out into schools where their mentors and other class teachers see them in action - the idea gets passed on and on. Ros Evans, York St John University //

We have an event in September for parents about mathematics and I am thinking about raising the profile of (and attendance) by working on some kind of recreation of the show that evening. I am wondering about cross-curricular links and possible primary liaison. Early days yet but I think that the potential exists. //Jim Noble - International School of Toulouse.//

What about using shapes instead of rice? - ie each person is represented by a square milimetre then groups of people are represented by different sized circles. Obviously all sorts of shapes could be used for different effects. This has plenty of mathematical potential and means that exhibits could be put on walls as well as the floor! I am wondering if it would have the same visual impact that the piles of rice had though - maybe a mixture? Any thoughts on this idea then please use the discussion tab above - //Jim Noble - International School of Toulouse//

I have uploaded some photos to the 'responses' section. They are of work done by a group of G&T Year 7 students in Bristol. My PGCE maths group ran a day of workshops and included this as a plenary. At the start of the day the school students came up with ideas that they'd like to use - based around statistics to do with Bristol. This meant a reasonable amount of rice - we used 10kg which was more than the population of Bristol. At the end of the day the students worked in groups to create some of their statistics. It was good fun, if a bit chaotic! //Jan Winter, University of Bristol, Graduate School of Education//