SSC Gifted & Talented

The Year Five and Six G&T Maths students from the Sponne Cluster Primary Schools were presented with their medals and prizes today. They fully deserved the awards after demonstrating not only great maths ability but also effective communication and collaboration skills. Congratulations!

Let’s pull the trigger!

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3pm Update:
We had a brilliant and very wet time today. Exploring the tangent function to find the height of buildings around the track, we quickly got to grips with our clinometers to measure the necessary angle. We also made sure that we measured the adjacent distance from the structure to [...]

Coordinates are an important part of games design. Knowing where you want your objects to appear on a screen can be pinpointed using coordinates.

What does a two pound coin have to do with standing on the shoulders of giants? How does it relate to the activities that the Year 5/6 mathematicians are going to complete today? So many questions - so little time as usual

Research and plan the finances for the team’s trip from Silverstone to one of the above Grand Prix venues. You need to update the figures from the Indianapolis Challenge brief. Use the Day Two links to help get the up-to-date prices.

Welcome back Year Five & Six! Today we are looking at MONEY, MONEY, MONEY!

How do you measure the area of a Silverstone pit garage when there is no measuring equipment to hand?

It’s amazing how estimates can vary depending on initial assumptions. The actual number of seats in the pit-straight grandstands is ….

As we are touring the track facilities and perimeter, ask yourselves the following questions. You will later need to discuss and present your ideas as a team.
· Where would be a suitable place to house extra grandstand seating for the 2008 Grand Prix?
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