FunMaths Roadshow: UK-wide Roll-out

FunMaths 路演：在英国范围内推广

• 批准号: EP/G063125/1
• 负责人: David Lewis
• 金额: $ 27.9万
• 依托单位: University of Liverpool
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2009 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FG063125%2F1
• 关键词: FunMaths; Roadshow; UK; wide; Roll

The FunMaths Roadshow is a hands-on mathematical activity, owned by the Liverpool Mathematical Society, which has been developed over several years by schoolteachers, students and university staff. It consists of activities, attractively produced on laminated A3 cards, plus some simple accompanying equipment. The activities are collected into 'Boxes', each Box containing 25 activities and each Box being aimed at a particular age-group. There is appropriate material for school pupils from all years, Primary, Secondary and Sixth Form and the range of mathematical ideas which feed into the material is very wide. The Roadshow is aimed at children of all abilities, and has been successfully run in all kinds of schools. The cards are typically set up on small tables and classes of about 50 children tackle the activities in small groups, talking to each other about the mathematics and working towards a solution. Helpers, who can be teachers, older pupils, university students or staff, give discreet assistance as needed and judge whether the solutions found are correct. Each group has a sheet to record which problems they have successfully solved. The activity is highly interactive, and works especially well when the helpers are older pupils, sometimes secondary school pupils helping those from feeder primary schools. Tens of thousands of pupils all over the country have benefitted from the Roadshow over the last few years; an article in 'Teachers' magazine in May 2007 alone produced over a hundred requests for visits nationwide. The texts of the problems (over 300 in all) are also sold as a CD by the Liverpool Mathematical Society. The Roadshow is featured in the STEM directory.Roadshow events are sometimes accompanied by more concentrated Workshops. These are structured sets of problems, with an accompanying interactive presentation, devoted to a single topic. They encourage pupils to explore an aspect of mathematics which is related to their school studies but points towards more advanced ideas. Workshops are typically aimed at more able pupils of GCSE attainment, and sixth formers. All Workshops are trialled at the highly successful Liverpool University Maths Club, which attracts 30-40 enthusiastic youngsters usually aged 13-18, one Saturday per month during the school year.Several other organizations such as the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM), the Further Maths Network and the Royal Institution (Ri) have enthusiastically adopted Roadshow materials for their own events. Several translations of the materials have been made and events run successfully in France, aided by the British Council. Events can involve the public, as with the annual Festivals of Science.The success of the Roadshow has made it impracticable for one centre, in Liverpool, to provide a national service in running events. The proposal seeks to roll out the Roadshow and the accompanying Workshops nationally through a series of Hubs. There have already been several indications of strong interest in running these Hubs. A very important feature is that, once set up, it is expected that the Hubs will become self-sustaining, using local funding, payments from schools or (as with one existing hub, in Sheffield) dedicated teacher time. The current Outreach Officer employed on a PPE grant, and an assistant, would be employed for a further two years to guide the setting up of these hubs and provide initial help in running Roadshows. Other developments of the Roadshow materials and Workshops are also planned, adding further topics to those already covered, again trialled at the Maths Club.

FunMaths Roadshow是一项动手数学活动，由利物浦数学学会拥有，多年来由学校教师，学生和大学工作人员开发。它由活动组成，在层压A3卡上精美制作，加上一些简单的配套设备。这些活动被收集到“盒子”中，每个盒子包含25项活动，每个盒子针对特定年龄组。有适当的材料，为学校的学生从所有年份，小学，中学和六年级和范围的数学思想，饲料到材料是非常广泛的。巡回演出是针对各种能力的儿童，并已成功地运行在各种学校。这些卡片通常被放在小桌子上，大约50名儿童组成的班级以小组的形式处理这些活动，互相谈论数学并努力解决问题。帮助者可以是教师、年长的学生、大学生或工作人员，他们根据需要提供谨慎的帮助，并判断找到的解决方案是否正确。每个小组都有一张纸，记录他们成功解决的问题。这项活动互动性很强，当帮助者是年龄较大的学生时，效果尤其好，有时是中学学生帮助附属小学的学生。在过去几年里，全国各地成千上万的学生从巡回演出中受益;仅2007年5月《教师》杂志上的一篇文章就在全国范围内产生了100多个访问请求。文本的问题（超过300在所有）也作为一个光盘出售的利物浦数学学会。路演在STEM目录中有特色。路演活动有时会伴随着更集中的研讨会。这些都是结构化的问题集，伴随着互动演示，致力于一个单一的主题。他们鼓励学生探索数学的一个方面，这与他们的学校学习有关，但指向更先进的思想。讲习班通常针对能力较强的普通中等教育证书获得者和六年级学生。所有的工作坊都在非常成功的利物浦大学数学俱乐部进行了尝试，该俱乐部吸引了30-40名热情的年轻人，通常年龄在13-18岁，每个月在学年的一个星期六。其他几个组织，如国家数学教学卓越中心（NCETM），进一步数学网络和皇家研究所（Ri）也热情地采用了路演材料。在英国理事会的协助下，这些材料已被翻译成若干种文字，并在法国成功地举办了活动。活动可以让公众参与，就像一年一度的科学节一样。路演的成功使得利物浦的一个中心无法提供全国性的活动服务。该提案旨在通过一系列中心在全国范围内推出路演和相关研讨会。已经有几个迹象表明，人们对运营这些中心有浓厚的兴趣。一个非常重要的特点是，一旦建立，预计中心将成为自我维持，利用当地资金，从学校或（与一个现有的中心，在谢菲尔德）专用教师的时间付款。目前由个人、财产和设备赠款雇用的外联干事和一名助理将再雇用两年，以指导这些中心的建立，并在举办路演方面提供初步帮助。路演材料和研讨会的其他发展也在计划之中，在已经涵盖的主题基础上增加更多的主题，再次在数学俱乐部进行试验。