TKB: Maths, Museums & Learning
Mathematics – Heritage – Education
Examples of work completed or undertaken. Click the header images to find out more!
“Could exposure to mathematical themes whilst visiting museums help to change the negative attitudes towards mathematics that are prevalent in modern British society?”
– Extract from abstract for a talk delivered at the BSHM Christmas Meeting 2023.
Tags: education, mathematics, MathsComm, museums, online, talk
“It includes a mixture of original and replica fossils with interpretation cards for each one, and a set of activity suggestions to help students make the most of the opportunities to explore planet Earth before humanity existed.”
Tags: Catherine Holden, education, Kate Travers, mathematics, museums, ResourceDevelopment, resources, science, STEM
“The workshop includes hands-on activities that allow students to better understand how the sewerage systems that they take for granted work behind the scenes, and how they fit into the water cycle, and also a tour that takes them amongst the enormous beam engines.”
Tags: Catherine Holden, education, Kate Travers, Leicester, museums, onsite, ResourceDevelopment, workshop
“I don’t know what it means, but “Maamatiec mate” is a phrase that was disappointingly absent from my own mathematics education.”
Tags: digital, mathematics, MathsComm
“The project arose from an earlier event which highlighted the potential for heritage science themes to help build bridges between arts and science teaching in schools whilst spreading awareness of an aspect of museum and gallery work that is often hidden behind the scenes.”
Tags: Catherine Holden, education, heritage, museums, research, ResearchProject, science, writing
As part of Kate Travers Associates I was commissioned to develop classroom resources to support the AHRC-funded project Florence Nightingale Comes Home for 2020. Click the image above to find out more.
Tags: Catherine Holden, digital, Kate Travers, maths, museum, online, ResourceDevelopment, resources, teaching