Hands-On Maths Roadshow

We visit primary and secondary schools across the UK with a Hands On Maths Roadshow presenting creative methods of exploring mathematics through concrete problem solving and strategic reasoning.

The ideas explored in these events can be followed up in more depth afterwards through the materials published on the NRICH website. We also run a version of the Roadshow as the Hands-On Maths Fair each year during the Cambridge Science Festival, and have occasionally run public events in shopping centres too.

To book the Roadshow or find out more download our booking form or click here.

Enigma Schools Project

We have taken over Simon Singh's enormously popular Enigma Schools Project. We will visit your school with a genuine WW2 Enigma machine and deliver code breaking workshops designed to engage students of all ages with mathematics by exploring cryptography through the ages. The workshops include both a talk on the history of codes and cryptanalysis, and hands-on codebreaking activities.

For further information and bookings see the Enigma website.

Risk Roadshow

In January 2009 we will launch the Risk Roadshow, a collaboration with Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge. The Risk Roadshow will enable Key Stage 3 - 5 students to participate in an interactive presentation and workshop, discovering how mathematics will help them make sense of the real world in situations involving risk, probability, chance and uncertainty.

NRICH - pupil workshops and teacher professional development

The NRICH team also run continuing professional development courses for teachers and pupil workshops and masterclasses in schools all over the UK. For the past five years we also ran special long-term after-school pupil projects in inner-city London, funded by the SHINE Trust; this work won NRICH the Hackney Learning Trust Education Provider of the Year Award. We will continue to be engaged in this area in 2008/9 in collaboration with the More Maths Grads project. In 2008/9 we launched the Fast Forward Maths programme of residential schools, held in Cambridge, for selected Year 10 students, funded by the Goldman Sachs Foundation and run in collaboration with the Cambridge Admissions Office. In 2008/9 we are also running a Teacher Inspiration programme comprising a three day professional development course focusing on KS3, 4 and 5, free to mathematics teachers from state schools in the UK.