Mathematical Education on Merseyside

LivMS Lecture - Ed Hardy - Dark matter and dark energy: mysteries of the Universe
2022-11-24 17:00 - 18:00 UTC
Date: 24 Nov, 2022
Time: 17:00
Presenter: Ed Hardy.
Title: Dark matter and dark energy: mysteries of the Universe
Audience: Year 11 and up.
Venue: TBA.
Contact: Peter Giblin pjgiblin@liv.ac.uk.

Ed Hardy is a lecturer and a Future Leaders Fellow of UK Research and Innovation working on the standard model in the theoretical physics division of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Liverpool.

LivMS Lecture - Zoe Griffiths
2022-10-13 17:00 - 18:00
Date: 13 Oct, 2022
Time: 17:00
Presenter: Zoe Griffiths.
Title: Adventures in the fourth dimension.
Audience: Year 11 and up.
Venue: Online.
Contact: Peter Giblin.

Zoe Griffiths is a member of ThinkMaths and Maths Inspiration https://www.think-maths.co.uk/zoe-griffiths/

University of Liverpool Maths School - Open Evening and Outreach Courses
2022-09-28 18:00 - 20:00
Open Evening
https://liverpoolmathsschool.org/events/

Outreach Courses for Years 10 to 13
http://liverpoolmathsschool.org/outreach-reaching-your-potential/

AMSP Core Maths Summer Festival - Climate Change and Maths
2022-07-14 16:00 - 18:30
Climate change and maths with Emma Bell and Alistair Bissell

• Climate data sources and how they can be used in Maths lessons
• The new MEI and Royal Meteorological Society Climate Change and Maths resources for KS3 and Core Maths

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Audience: Teachers

Curriculum focus: Core Maths

Event format: Live Online Professional Development

Event length: 2 hours

Region: National

Date: Tue 14th Jul 2022

Course times: 16:15 – 18:15

Fee: Free for teachers in England

https://amsp.org.uk/events/details/9532

AMSP Core Maths Summer Festival - Graphs in the New York Times
2022-07-12 16:00 - 18:30
What’s Going on In This Graph? with The New York Times with Sharon Hessney and Dashiell Young-Saver

• How “What’s Going On in This Graph?” fosters in-depth student discussion, activates critical thinking, and strengthens skills in making observations and inferences.
• The NY Times Math Lessons of the Day on pre-natal tests to electric cars

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Audience: Teachers

Curriculum focus: Core Maths

Event format: Live Online Professional Development

Event length: 2 hours

Region: National

Date: Tue 12th Jul 2022

Course times: 16:15 – 18:15

Fee: Free for teachers in England

https://amsp.org.uk/events/details/9531

AMSP Core Maths Summer Festival - Standard Deviation in Maths and Biology
2022-07-05 16:00 - 18:30
Standard deviation in maths and biology with Sarah Denison

• Compare standard deviation assessment questions across a range of subjects
• Ways to introduce and help students develop a deeper understanding of standard deviation (with a focus on biological contexts)

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Audience: Teachers

Curriculum focus: Core Maths

Event format: Live Online Professional Development

Event length: 2 hours

Region: National

Date: Tue 05th Jul 2022

Course times: 16:15 – 18:15

Fee: Free for teachers in England

https://amsp.org.uk/events/details/9543

AMSP Core Maths Summer Festival - Spreadsheets and the World of Work
2022-07-04 16:00 - 18:30
Spreadsheets and the world of work with Rachel Beddoes, Tom Rainbow and Cat van Saarloos

• Key spreadsheet skills
• The full collection of ‘World of Work’ resources and their links to the maths curriculum
• Further resources and extension opportunities for students.

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Audience: Teachers

Curriculum focus: Core Maths

Event format: Live Online Professional Development

Event length: 2 hours

Region: National

Date: Tue 04th Jul 2022

Course times: 16:15 – 18:15

Fee: Free for teachers in England

https://amsp.org.uk/events/details/9530

AMSP Core Maths Summer Festival - Correlation in Maths and Geography
2022-06-28 16:00 - 18:30
Correlation in maths and geography with Tom Rainbow and the Royal Geographical Society

• Exciting ways to analyse bivariate data
• Why Spearman’s rank is so useful in A level Geography
• Correlation teaching activities that can be used in Maths and Geography classrooms

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Audience: Teachers.

Curriculum focus: Core Maths.

Event format: Live Online Professional Development.

Event length: 2 hours.

Region: National.

Date: Tue 28th Jun 2022.

Course times: 16:15 – 18:15

Fee: Free for teachers in England.

https://amsp.org.uk/events/details/9529

AMSP Core Maths Summer Festival - Confidence Intervals with Stats Medic
2022-06-22 16:00 - 18:30
Experience confidence intervals with Stats Medic with Luke Wilcox

• The ethos of The Stats Medic: experience first, formalise later• Activities on sampling distributions and confidence intervals

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Audience: Teachers

Curriculum focus: Core Maths

Event format: Live Online Professional Development

Event length: 2 hours

Region: National

Date: Tue 22nd Jun 2022

Course times: 16:15 – 18:15

Fee: Free for teachers in England

https://amsp.org.uk/events/details/9528

AMSP Core Maths Summer Festival - Maths in the News
2022-06-20 16:00 - 18:30
Maths in the News with Cat van Saarloos and the Economist Educational Foundation

• Activities from the Economist Educational Foundation on Maths in the News
• Top-tips for developing critical analysis skills in your students

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Audience: Teachers

Curriculum focus: Core Maths

Event format: Live Online Professional Development

Event length: 2 hours

Region: National

Date: Tue 20th Jun 2022

Course times: 16:15 – 18:15

Fee: Free for teachers in England

https://amsp.org.uk/events/details/9527

AMSP Core Maths Summer Festival - Data in Maths and Psychology
2022-06-16 16:00 - 18:30
Collecting and analysing data in maths and Psychology with Cat van Saarloos
• Interactive activities which collect student data from experiments• Ways to make statistics accessible, fun and easy to embed in any course
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Audience: Teachers

Curriculum focus: Core Maths

Event format: Live Online Professional Development

Event length: 2 hours

Region: National

Date: Tue 16th Jun 2022

Course times: 16:15 – 18:15

Fee: Free for teachers in England

https://amsp.org.uk/events/details/9526

AMSP Core Maths Summer Festival - Unmotivated GCSE Students
2022-06-14 16:00 - 18:30
How do we engage unmotivated and resit GCSE students? with Emma Bell
• How context-driven maths delivery can motivate and engage GCSE students• Ways to make algebra relatable
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Audience: Teachers

Curriculum focus: Core Maths

Event format: Live Online Professional Development

Event length: 2 hours

Region: National

Date: Tue 14th Jun 2022

Course times: 16:15 – 18:15

Fee: Free for teachers in England

https://amsp.org.uk/events/details/9525

LivMS Popular Lecture - Lakes, Rivers ... and Waterfalls
2022-03-10 17:00 - 18:00 | UoL Teaching Hub (502 on map)
Date: 10 Mar, 2022
Time: 17:00
Presenter: Sammie Buzzard (University of Cardiff and Maths Inspiration)
Title: Lakes, rivers… and waterfalls? The surprising things maths can help us to understand about Antarctica
Audience: Year 11 up
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, Teaching Hub (building 502), off Mount Pleasant.

See map https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/media/livacuk/maps/Campus,Map,2020_0903.pdf

Contact: Peter Giblin

LivMS Pop Maths Quiz
2022-03-05 09:30 - 14:00 | LJMU James Parsons Building, Byrom Street, Liverpool, L3 3AF
Date: 05 Mar, 2022Time: 09:45 to 14:00Presenter: Barry Grantham, Ian Jarman, Tony CarterTitle: Sixth Form Pop Maths QuizAudience: Sixth FormVenue: face to face and onlineContact: Barry Grantham: mailto:granthb47@gmail.com

LivMS Popular Lecture - Notable Schools
2022-02-02 17:00 - 18:00
Date: Wednesday 2 Feb, 2022
Time: 17:00-18:00
Presenter: Damian Haigh (Head Teacher of the University of Liverpool Mathematics School)
Title: Notable schools in the history of mathematics education and some the people who learned there
Audience: Anyone interested in post-16 mathematics education, including school students in Years 10 and 11
Venue: Online
Contact: Peter Giblin
Registration required: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/notable-schools-of-maths-in-history-some-of-the-people-who-learned-there-tickets-244335934357

AMSP Maths on Trial with Coralie Colmez and Leila Schneps
2022-01-27 16:30 - 18:00
In the wrong hands, maths can be deadly. Even the simplest numbers can become powerful forces when manipulated by politicians or the media, but in the case of the law your liberty (and even your life) can depend on using the right mathematics.
Our Winter Festival finale is brought to you by Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez, the truly inspiring mother and daughter co-authors of ‘Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom’. Leila is an American mathematician and fiction writer and works at French National Centre for Scientific Research on number theory. Coralie read mathematics at Cambridge University, won the Ryan Prize in Higher Mathematics and is also Director and Co-Founder of the student destination platform, Unifrog.
During this enlightening talk, Coralie will explore cases from the book with an emphasis on how to use them in the classroom. Leila will then delve into some new cases and demonstrate how to think about the world around us with an awareness of error. There will also be an opportunity to find out more about Unifrog and the extensive resources available for maths teachers and students.
Please note that this talk is 1.5 hours in order to provide plenty of time for questions at the end. If you are only able to attend from 4.30pm-5.30pm then you will still get to hear the full Maths on Trial talk.
Key Facts

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Audience: Teachers

Curriculum focus: Core Maths

Mathematical focus: Statistics, Problem Solving

Event format: Live Online Professional Development

Event length: 1.5 hours

Online sessions: 6

Region: National

Date: Thu 27th Jan 2022

Course times: 16:30 – 18:00

Fee: Free for teachers in England

AMSP How Not to be Wrong, with Jordan Ellenberg
2022-01-26 16:30 - 17:30
In ‘How Not to be Wrong’, Jordan presents the surprising revelations to a multitude of diverse questions such as:
‘How early should you get to the airport?’
‘What does “public opinion” really represent?’
‘Why do tall parents have shorter children?’
In his talk, Jordan will debunk the view that the maths we learn at school is a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients, not to be questioned. He will explore how maths touches everything we do and will allow us to see the hidden structures beneath the messy and chaotic surface of our daily lives.
This fascinating talk will ignite your curiosity and leave you with a host of responses to “when will I ever use that?”
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Audience: Teachers

Curriculum focus: Core Maths

Mathematical focus: Problem Solving

Event format: Live Online Professional Development

Event length: 1 hour

Online sessions: 6

Region: National

Date: Wed 26th Jan 2022

Course times: 16:30 – 17:30

Fee: Free for teachers in England

AMSP Andy Field's Adventure in Statistics
2022-01-25 16:30 - 17:30
During his talk, Andy will discuss the importance of statistical literacy as a transferable skill, and the difficulties that Psychology students without maths backgrounds face during their degrees. You will also leave with some ideas about how to engage Psychology students in learning to think statistically.
Key Facts

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Audience: Teachers

Curriculum focus: Core Maths

Mathematical focus: Statistics, Maths in other subjects

Event format: Live Online Professional Development

Event length: 1 hour

Online sessions: 6

Region: National

Date: Tue 25th Jan 2022

Course times: 16:30 – 17:30

Fee: Free for teachers in England

LivMS Christmas Lecture - Online event
2021-12-15 14:00 - 15:00
Date: 15 Dec, 2021
Time: 14:00
Presenter: Simon Singh
Title: Christmas Lecture: Fermat’s last theorem
Audience: Year 11 up
Venue: Online
Registration: Via the Eventbrite page for the event
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/christmas-lecture-fermats-last-theorem-tickets-168104628469
Contact: Peter Giblin

Simon Singh https://simonsingh.net/ , best-selling author of “Fermat’s Last Theorem”, talks about the most notorious problem in the history of mathematics.

Rarely can a scribbled note in a margin have provoked so much mathematical curiosity as Pierre de Fermat‘s infamous conjecture, discovered after his death, that no three positive whole numbers a,a, b,b, and cc satisfy the equation anan + bnbn = cncn for any whole-number value of nn greater than 2.
Fermat claimed to have a proof, but left no record of it, stating only that the margin was too small to contain it. This unproven result became known as Fermat’s Last Theorem. Generations of mathematicians tried and failed across more than three centuries to prove the general case, though it was proved for numerous particular values of nn (even by Fermat for nn = 4). Finally in 1994, Andrew (later Sir Andrew) Wiles announced to the world that the problem was solved, though there were some gaps which were filled by Wiles and his former student Richard Taylor.
Simon Singh made an award-winning documentary about this achievement and also wrote a best-selling book. In this lecture, he will talk us through the history of Fermat’s Last Theorem and give us an idea of how it was eventually proved using ground-breaking new mathematics.

LivMS Popular Lecture - Online event
2021-11-18 17:00 - 18:00
Date: 18 Nov, 2021
Time: 17:00-18:00
Presenter: Chris Pritchard
Title: Great Mathematical Diagrams
Audience: Year 11 up
Venue: TBC (either in-person or online depending on circumstances)
Registration: Via the Eventbrite page for the event
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/great-mathematical-diagrams-tickets-169822771481
Contact: Peter Giblin

Chris Pritchard is the 2021-22 President of the Mathematical Association.
The talk is a journey through mathematical diagrams, some famed for their importance and longevity, some critical for the information they convey and many of them just plain clever. Join me for a look at a range of visual material from the Bride’s Chair of Euclid’s Elements to the Königsberg bridges and from Playfair’s pie chart to Anscombe’s salutary lesson, whilst also enjoying some “proofs without words” which can be deployed profitably in the classroom.

LivMS Popular Lecture - Online event
2021-10-13 17:00 - 18:00 | online
Date: Wednesday 13 Oct, 2021
Time: 17:00-18:00
Presenter: Colva Roney-Dougal
Title: Party hard! The maths of connections
Audience: Year 11 up, teachers and all interested in mathematics
Venue: Online
Contact: Peter Giblin
Registration: Via the Eventbrite page for the event
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/party-hard-the-maths-of-connections-tickets-168099561313

How many guests need to come to a party, to guarantee that either at least five of them all know each other or at least five are mutual strangers? This question turns out to be surprisingly hard to solve, and has led to the creation of some maths that feels more like a newspaper puzzle than real work. We’ll explore connections ranging from friendship, through marriage, to the spread of infectious diseases.

LivMS Presidential Lecture Gaynor Bahan - Online event
2021-04-22 14:00 - 15:00 | online
Studying maths to smash the glass ceiling, Gaynor Bahan, LivMS President
Date: 22nd April 2021 Time: 2:00PM to 3:00PM
Audience: Year 7 and up, and all those interested in mathematics
Venue: online
Contact: Peter Giblin
Entry is free to all students and to LivMS members

LivMS Pop Maths Quiz - online
2021-03-06 09:30 - 14:00 | online
Example question: If the outer circle has radius 12 cm., what is the radius of the dark red circles?
Presenters: Barry Grantham, Tony Carter, Ian Jarman
Title: Sixth Form Pop Maths Quiz
Audience: Sixth Form
Venue: online via Zoom
The Pop Maths Quiz is a TEAM competition that runs a bit like a Pub Quiz but without any alcohol!
Schools are invited to enter one or more teams.
Teams consist of 4 students (under 19 years) who, during the Quiz, work together to attempt to solve a number of questions on a wide range of mathematical topics.
They then have the opportunity to submit their answers via a Google Form.
Not all questions require specific A-level maths knowledge but all questions have a mathematical flavour.
Certificates will be awarded to all winners and entrants and the school names will be published on the LivMS website.
Unfortunately, it will not be possible to award prizes this year.
For more details of the 2021 event click here

LivMS Presidential Lecture (rescheduled) Anna Pratoussevitch
2021-03-04 17:00 - 18:00 | online
The Secret Life of Bubbles, Anna Pratoussevitch, previous LivMS President
Audience: 16+ and all those interested in mathematics
Venue: online
Contact: Peter Giblin
Entry is free to all students and to LivMS members

Why are soap bubbles round? What happens when two bubbles meet? What is the shape of bubbles in a soap foam? What happens if you dip a wire cube into soapy water? In this talk Anna will discuss the maths behind all these shapes and, of course, blow some soap bubbles.

MEM & LivMS Challenge competitions
2021-02-15 - 2021-03-19
Organisers: MEM Admin team and Alison Carter
Title: MEM Challenge, MEM Senior Challenge and LivMS Open Challenge 2021
Audience: MEM and LivMS Challenge entrants and their teachers
Venue: free take home competitions for half term
Details: http://mathsmerseyside.org.uk/challenges and http://www.livmathssoc.org.uk/cgi-bin/sews.py?OpenChallenge

AMSP Winter Core Maths Festival, Angela Saini
2021-01-23 09:30 - 10:30
Minority-ethnic health and racial disparity, Angela Saini
Saturday 23 January, 09:30-10:30
Venue: ONLINE – 09:30AM
Audience: 16+ and all those interested in mathematics
Attendance is free but you should apply here: https://forms.mei.org.uk/core-maths-festival/7978
Content
Speaker: Angela Saini

We are honoured that Angela Saini, award-winning science journalist, author and broadcaster is taking part in our Winter Core Maths Festival. This year she was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers by Prospect Magazine and her books, Superior, Inferior and Geek Nation have received widespread critical acclaim.
“It has taken a pandemic to put the issue of minority-ethnic health at the top of the agenda.” What does the data say about racial disparity and health and how has this been reported? Angela will explore this question and other aspects of her research. In addition, she will take us on a tour of the darker side of the origins of the statistical techniques we teach our students today.
We hope you will leave enlightened and with increased confidence to tackle challenging contexts in the classroom.

AMSP Winter Core Maths Festival, Rob Eastaway
2021-01-21 16:30 - 17:30
Algorithms; Mathematical models; Statistical analysis and sport! Rob Eastaway
Thursday 21 January, 16:30-17:30
Venue: ONLINE – 16:30PM
Audience: 16+ and all those interested in mathematics
Attendance is free but you should apply here: https://forms.mei.org.uk/core-maths-festival/7977
Content
Speaker: Rob Eastaway

Algorithms; Mathematical models; Statistical analysis. These Core Maths skills are more relevant today than they have ever been. And one of the most engaging ways to learn about them is through sport!
You may not realise this, but Maths Inspiration guru and author of eleven books, Rob Eastaway, has been instrumental in developing the way in which sporting performance has been measured throughout the world. With examples that range from football to tennis, cricket to darts, Rob will explore the maths of sport, revealing how analytical techniques are used to rank the world’s top performers, improve player strategies, and make contests fairer.
Whether you are a sports nut, just somebody who occasionally watches a big match on TV or not interested in sport at all, this fascinating talk will give you insights into what sport can teach us about ranking and decision making in every walk of life.

AMSP Winter Core Maths Festival, Tim Harford
2021-01-16 09:30 - 10:30
Extracts from ‘How to make the world add up’, Tim Harford
Saturday 16 January, 9:30-10:30
Tim will highlight gems from his latest book, igniting your curiosity and inspiring you to pass these tools on to your students. Tim has even agreed to undertake a Core Maths question live in the session!
Venue: ONLINE – 9:30AM
Audience: 16+ and all those interested in mathematics
Attendance is free but you should apply here: https://forms.mei.org.uk/core-maths-festival/7976
Overview
AMSP’s Winter Core Maths Festival is comprised of three one-hour talks by three inspirational speakers. We hope that these will enthuse, challenge and enlighten you and offer a springboard to the creation of, even more, fantastic Core Maths lessons.
Who will benefit from attending?
These sessions are designed to appeal to all maths teachers, regardless of how much experience of Core Maths you have had, if any. These sessions are also likely to appeal to teachers of other subjects that incorporate some mathematical content, such as Biology, Geography and Social Science.
Content
Speaker: Tim Harford

Settle in for an illuminating and engaging Saturday morning Festival session with Tim Harford
Many of you will have experienced the delights of Radio 4’s More or Less and know how relevant the techniques and approaches are when teaching Level 3 Core Maths. Tim’s latest book, ‘How to Make the World Add Up’ takes you even deeper into the land of misinformation and provides ten simple rules for understanding numbers.
Tim will highlight gems from the book, igniting your curiosity and inspiring you to pass these tools on to your students. Tim has even agreed to undertake a Core Maths question live in the session!

LivMS Christmas Lecture (Simon Singh) - POSTPONED to December 2021
2020-12-09 14:00 - 15:00
Presenter: Simon Singh.
Title: t.b.a.
Audience: Year 11 up, and all those interested in mathematics.
Venue: University of Liverpool. There is a visitor carpark with entrance on Mount Pleasant and a car park under the Metropolitan Cathedral https://www.liverpoolmetrocathedral.org.uk/visit-the-cathedral/ with entrance also on Mount Pleasant.
Contact: Peter Giblin pjgiblin@liv.ac.uk

Entry is free to all, but booking will be needed.

https://simonsingh.net/

MEM Masterclass - CANCELLED
2020-12-05 10:00 - 14:30 | UoL Maths Building, Peach Street, Liverpool, L69 7BX
Masterclass 3 of 3 . . . . . All details yet to be confirmed
Last year: Mathematics of Juggling, Colin Wright
