Join the celebrations for Maths Week England – 11th – 17th November 2024 with a high-energy, Creative Maths workshop from As Creatives. There are lots of options to choose from – and with most programmes we are able to include a whole-school Maths assembly at the start of the day. Over half a million children … Read More
The Pirate’s challenge
Whole School Maths Day – Whole School Maths Challenges
Our Whole School Maths days are the perfect way to raise the profile of maths in your school – and can comfortably accommodate up to a whole two-form entry school in a single day. Each sees a character with a fully fleshed-out backstory spending the entire day with you, engaging every class in a narrative … Read More
Whole School Maths – The Pirate’s Challenge! – Maths Workshops for Primary Schools
The Pirate’s Challenge is one of our most popular maths workshops – allowing up to 60 pupils at a time to have some piratical fun with numbers and shapes! “Each year group loved their workshop and everyone was engaged at all times. Without knowing, the children in each year group worked mathematically and consolidated their previous … Read More
Chris’s Maths Week Ireland Blog
On 15th October 2019, I flew into Dublin for my first school visit at Star of the Sea in the east of the city to deliver one of my favourite maths workshops: CSI: Storyland. This is a great problem solving activity for early years and infants, using data handling, reasoning and numeracy to solve a … Read More
Learning and Lentils – Maths Week Scotland – Jackson Kavanagh
I’ve made many visits to Scotland over the last couple of years, taking as creatives’ learning programmes to primary and secondary schools in Clydebank, Cumbernauld, Dundee, Dunfermline, Glasgow (lots of trips to Glasgow!), Johnstone, Kilmarnock, Langholm, Paisley, Renfrew and Troon. As part of our ambition to promote creativity in education, we’ve developed the Five C’s. … Read More
Case Study: The Pirate’s Challenge!
A one-form entry school in Bolton, Edgworth has a House system that encourages children of different ages to work and socialise together, developing relationships across year groups. So when they were planning a Maths Day where pupils would work in House groups rather than in their normal classes, they asked us if there was a … Read More