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Masterclasses in hands-on mathematics offered by the Magic Mathworks Travelling Circus These workshops are designed to occupy 30 children for a whole morning (2 x an hour and a quarter). Topics:
For these workshops we charge only travel and accommodation expenses. For brief synopses go to the Masterclasses information sheet (pdf) Detailed notes on three of the masterclass sessionsThrough 20 years on the road with the Circus itself we have found that children most enjoy hands-on tasks where there is a creative dimension. Where possible, the sessions are therefore constructed with a prescriptive and a creative component. You may be consulting these notes for several reasons and with different ages of child in mind. Though we suggest a particular age group for the activity, this is only because those are the groups we ourselves have dealt with. The topics and the apparatus serving them can be used over a wide age and ability range. The pencil-and-paper mathematics, generally pitched at KS3-4, is distinguished from the experimental work and may be lifted out wholesale for classroom use – whether following a workshop session or not. In isolation it provides, at the least, meaningful bookwork.
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