On Tuesday 25 April, the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science ran \u2018Maths: What\u2019s the Point\u2019 for year 9 students who attend our Partner and KMPF schools. The event was designed to offer students a hands-on introduction as to how Maths is used outside the classroom, with sessions being both fun and educational.<\/p>\n
As well having the opportunity to meet with some of our undergraduate ambassadors, the visiting students were involved with a mixture of sessions including the Art of Codebreaking, Fraud Detection Using Statistics, and Topology & Play-Doh. These sessions were led by our experienced ambassadors who are currently studying across a range of our degree programmes.<\/p>\n
Feedback from the activities were extremely positive; for example, the Codebreaking session was described as \u2018exciting<\/em>\u2019 and that \u2018students were proactive in encrypting and decrypting their own messages<\/em>\u2019. The Fraud Detection session had similar positive comments from a teacher who attended: \u2018Presenter was very engaged and knowledgeable about the topic. Task was engaging and set at an appropriate level for the students<\/em>\u2019. The students who attended the event found these activities really beneficial when thinking about studying Maths at a higher level and considering how the subject is applied to real life scenarios.<\/p>\n For more information about this activity, please contact outreach@kent.ac.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Tuesday 25 April, the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science ran \u2018Maths: What\u2019s the Point\u2019 for year 9 students who attend our Partner … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}