MATHS MASTER CLASS

A selection of Year 5 students from St Teresa’s, Cranmore, St Martin’s and Eastwick visited St Teresa’s for another Royal Institute Mathematics Masterclass on the 28th of April. Organised by the Sixth Form students at St Teresa’s, the primary school pupils arrived in the library to begin learning about probability in a unique and exciting session.

Masterclasses are a series of workshops where students can explore mathematics and computer science outside the confines of the classroom, through hands-on extracurricular workshops. In collaboration with the Royal Institute, St Teresa’s has provided a handful of gifted mathematicians in local primary schools an opportunity to expand their current level of understanding into topics beyond their curriculum.

The primary students found themselves making friendships with others as they were guided to their first activity whilst waiting for the remaining schools. Kirsten S and Louise B took centre stage introducing the topic: Probability! Their exciting twist on the topic instantly captivated the engagement of all mini-mathematicians, starting with some common misconceptions. As they progressed to constructing their own dice from card, an experiment took place as pupils studied whether the hypothetical probability matched the relative frequency.