Mathematics trips
This list (under development - feedback and input welcome!) pulls together two types of activities relating mathematics and trips/visits (for 11-16 year olds).
1) Activities where students use mathematics to design a trip
2) Class trips where students can engage in mathematical activities.
Some of the links below are to Nuffield Applying Mathematical Processes resources. These are updated versions of the GAIM resources which include both type of maths trip activities, not all of which have been updated (e.g. P27, see below).
As additional activities and links become available, we could split the above into separate lists.
Cemetery visit (statistical investigation)
Pupils experience collecting primary data from a local graveyard or cemetery and then set their own questions that can be answered from the available data. The cemetery visit also allows pupils to explore the real issue of missing data for themselves.
This activity is part of the Nuffield AMP resources, is an updated version of the GAIM resource P24, Cemetery Mathemtaics (see below)
London City Walk (Architecture and Maths)
This activity, thanks to teachers and students at Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys, architects at Foster + Partners (City Hall, Gherkin, ...), the Royal Institution maths team and the QCA, was originally designed for a school trip to London to experience first hand the interplay of architecture and mathematics. It wlas part of the 'Engaging Mathematics for All Learners' project.
