Birmingham Popular Maths Lectures
This term our sixth formers and I have attended both of the FREE maths lectures run by Birmingham University’s Maths department. The first entitled ‘Maths in the making of the modern world’ was of great interest to our students giving them an insight into where Maths can lead in terms of careers (for more info please see mathscareers.org.uk) and also the type of mathematics they can experience at university which is much broader than at A level.
The second lecture entitled ‘Pi, interstellar dust clouds, single pixel camera: some surprising uses of random numbers’ was a far more rigorous lecture which went into the detail of how high resolution images can be compressed to much smaller sizes and how surprisingly we can unpack a single pixel camera images to give us an image which is almost identical to that taken by the new Nokia Lumia 41 megapixel camera.
After Christmas there are 3 more lectures, please click here for more details.
Moodle
The maths moodle pages are constantly being updated for all year groups, these include important resources such as:
- Revision sheets to use before assessment tests for years 7-11
- Sample and past papers for GCSE
- The interactive GCSE test book
As well as our
- Maths Fun page
Maths Prizes
Three lucky HGS students will be receiving an Amazon voucher for Christmas!
In the maths department we have been giving any student who has received a merit a raffle ticket. At the end of term we will be drawing three winners who will receive £20, £15 or £10 amazon voucher.
If you miss out this term remember we start again for the spring term – so impress your teachers and start collecting your tickets.
Well done year 11s
Our top two sets sat their GCSE in November and will be receiving their results in January. For the first time at HGS we have students who will have top grades in GCSE Maths before the summer. These students are now working on Additional Maths which is a AS equivalent qualification. They will all have a great opportunity to take Maths far beyond GCSE and be successful at A level.
Lastly, a big thank you to our head teacher Mr Bird who despite pressure from government policy changes decided to keep this fantastic opportunity in place for our students. HGS boys have benefitted from an opportunity which is starting to be taken away from many other students across the country.
