Advanced skills teacher Sarah Mason, from Sir Christopher Hatton School in Wellingborough, visited the Double Club at Thomas Becket to share her skills in teaching and learning practical maths. The session was based on shape, area, space, angles and shape properties. Students learnt how to fold origami shapes like a kite, various triangles, hexagons, polygons, pentagons and parallelograms. This was more difficult than it looked!
They used these shapes to make tessellated patterns, construct a foodball and other 3D shapes. Everyone enjoyed the activity and the hands-on approach. The students’ knowledge about shape, space and angles was excellent and they discussed with Sarah various shapes and their properties. They were all up for the challenge of making a football and experimented with all sorts of weird and wonderful patterns and formats when building their models.
As a starter, Sarah got the year 8 students thinking about maths in real life contexts with a quiz about the Olympics, covering facts and figures from previous games. Dean Dixon, from MK Dons was visiting as he will be teaching this project in Milton Keynes.
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