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GCSE Mathematicsin ActionFor GCSE and iGCSE students

• Enigma and the secret world of code breaking

• Lateral thinking in mathematics

• Babies, rabies and maybes: the maths of life and death

• Pascal’s patterns

• How maths made the modern world happen

Tuesday 10th November 2015Friday 11th December 2015Monday 7th March 2016Wednesday 16th March 2016

11.00 – 16.00

The Logan HallUCL Institute of Education20 Bedford WayLondon WC1H 0AL

MathematicsLondon

Enigma and the secret world of code breakingJames Grime, Mathematician and communicator

Lateral thinking in mathematicsPaul Sloane, Destination Innovation

Join us for an outstanding programme of mathematical talks that will inspire and delight students and teachers alike. Five

renowned speakers will unravel the secrets of an enigma machine, explain the maths of life and death and unveil the maths behind an iPhone. Our unmissable programme of maths in action illustrates the aspects of mathematics that have a real impact on the modern world.

GCSE Mathematics in Action Tuesday 10th November 2015, Friday 11th December 2015,Monday 7th March 2016, Wednesday 16th March 2016

For as long as we have had secrets we have

had secret messages. Dr James Grime looks

at the fascinating history and mathematics

of codes and code breaking – from ancient

Greece to the present day – including a

demonstration of an original WWII Enigma

Machine! James is a mathematician with a personal passion for maths communication and the promotion of mathematics in schools and to the general public. He can be mostly found doing exactly that, either touring the world giving public talks, or on YouTube.

Lateral thinking means tackling a problem

from a different point of view, challenging

your assumptions and fi nding a clever and

different solution. It applies in maths as well

as many other walks of life. Paul Sloane is

co-author of Mathematical Lateral Thinking

Puzzles. In this engaging talk he will

challenge and confront you with puzzles

and fresh ideas. He will show how there is

often a more elegant and pleasing solution

that that offered by a routine approach.

Paul Sloane read Engineering at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is the leading author of books of lateral thinking puzzles, many of which are co-authored with Des MacHale. He also writes about innovation, open innovation and crowdsourcing.

Babies, rabies and maybes: the maths of life and deathCalvin Smith, University of Reading

Pascal’s patternsEmma McCoy, Imperial College London

Using maths to model some animal and

human populations we will see the circle

of life in action, how to stop the spread

of disease – and more! No animals will

be harmed during this presentation but a

large number of electrons will be seriously

inconvenienced. Calvin Smith is a Teaching Fellow with experience of module design and delivery across a large number of undergraduate courses in mathematics. He is particularly interested in bridging the gap between further and higher education and how technology can be used to enhance the student’s learning experience in mathematics.

Pascal’s triangle is named after the 17th

century French Mathematician Blaise

Pascal. Professor McCoy will look at some

of the beautiful patterns hidden in Pascal’s

triangle and investigate why they appear.

She will look at how to use Pascal’s triangle

to expand brackets in algebra; solve

problems in geometry; work out problems

in probability, such as winning the lottery or

getting dealt a royal fl ush in poker. Professor

McCoy will even use Pascal’s triangle to

show how many pizza combinations you can

get from a list of toppings.

Professor.Emma McCoy teaches the introductory probability course on the undergraduate mathematics degree at Imperial and also teaches on the MSc in Statistics. She has given many talks in schools and been involved in the Royal Institution Masterclass series for many years. Her research interests are in the area of time series analysis.

How maths made the modern world happenChris Budd, University of Bath

Why does anyone care about maths?

Answer: because it underpins almost

everything that we do from mobile phones

to the ipod and Google. Chris will uncover

the maths behind some of the most

important items of modern technology.Chris is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Bath and Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Chris’ research interests include the theory, application and computation of nonlinear problems (in his words “linear problems are for cissies”) with special interest in problems which arise in industry.

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• 5 minutes from nearest underground station

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• Later start to help reduce transport costs

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