Thinking Logically
The challenge was taken by top
set Year 8 students and some very talented Year 7 students were also invited to participate. The challenge is made up of
multiple choice questions which encourage the students to think logically and
draw on all their mathematical skills. As you can see from the photographs below this was an opportunity to work independently.
Winning the Lottery!
On Tuesday selected year 7 students were invited to the maths gifted
and talented masterclass, which taught them a lesson about the lottery! The
students discovered how Pascal’s triangle is related to finding out how many
different outcomes there are to something like a lottery – and therefore
the probability of winning! They eventually discovered the button on their calculators that
works it all out for them, calculating there is a 1 in 13,983,816 chance
of winning the jackpot on the national lottery. Now they have the tool to work this out, and the greater understanding of why it is possible.
