Museums and other informal learning environments provide an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the applications of maths, and to highlight how it influences our everyday lives. Here we share some of our top tips for exploring maths in museums.
Maths is everywhere, especially in our museums. In this blog Andy Lickley tells his journey of breaking his own stereotypes around maths which led him on the path of discovering magical maths moments.
The 18th of May is national numeracy day which gives us an opportunity to reflect on and share how our Science Museum Group museums have been working to inspire and support maths engagement.
Jess Sashaw shares the development of our maths themed image banks and how we’ve brought to life some of the stories behind objects in our collection. She discusses how they help promote discussion, develop confidence and ownership and how they have help relate maths to everyday life.
Hands-on making activities are an essential part of our learning resources offer. Our activities use easy to find materials and give people the opportunity to get creative with science and maths at home and in the classroom. Jess Sashaw discusses our newly developed set of maths resources.
Our engagement reflection points help us make our experiences relevant to as wide an audience as possible. Jess Sashaw has been developing our maths engagement offer, and shares how the reflection points can help people feel more connected to maths.
When you think of a science museum, maths may not come to mind. Our museums go beyond science and tell stories from all aspects of STEM. In the second post of our ‘maths engagement’ series, Jess Sashaw unlocks the maths behind some of our collection themes.
At the beginning of 2020, we started a project to develop a maths engagement offer for the Science Museum group Academy. Jess Sashaw, Academy Programme Leader, has been looking at our learning offer, and in this post reflects on the importance and value of maths engagement.