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Maths Week – Numeracy Day 2020

Maths Week – Numeracy Day

Monday 12th – Friday 16th October 2020

Despite the pervasive, exponential threat of COVID 19 Maths Week 2020 in Blackrock managed to be a tremendous series of events, maybe the best ever.

As usual a sequence of slides on the monitors detailed the rich history of maths and its many beautiful equations with contributions ranging from our own brilliant Richard Rowan Hamilton to those two other immortals, Gauss and Schrodinger.

The Maths Quiz ran all week with some phenomenal questions and contributions. These highly differentiating questions were distributed in each class thus integrating Maths Week with the classroom s in a big and meaningful way. We would like to thank Andrea Dillon for her expert assistance in help in setting up the quiz so seamlessly.

The winners were:

2nd Year: Ryan Nolan
3rd Year: Conor Sheridan
4th Year: Thomas Brigg
5th Year: Rory Luff
6th Year: Naoise Cautley

On Numeracy Day many, many numbers in the college, including all the classroom signs, were substituted with special equivalent calculations Maths Week became Mat’s Week as Numeracy Day, saw the unveiling of of the TY’s great Protractor Mat we would like to thank the Art Department for their contribution to this great project.

We would also like to thank Ms. Kelleher for her superlative lessons on Roman Numerals, which were the focus of Maths classes in 2nd, 3rd and 4th Year.

On Numeracy Day many, many numbers in the college, including all the classroom signs, were substituted with special equivalent calculations Maths Week became Mat’s Week as Numeracy Day, saw the unveiling of of the TY’s great Protractor Mat we would like to thank the Art Department for their contribution to this great project.

We would also like to thank Ms. Kelleher for her superlative lessons on Roman Numerals, which were the focus of Maths classes in 2nd, 3rd and 4th Year.

The week climaxed with our Numeracy Treasure Hunt and the Pinball Jar Competitions. The winners were, Charlie Parsons and Alex Hopkins respectively.

In summation we would like to thank Mr McKimm, Mr Costello and all the members of the Maths Department for their unstinting and generous contributions to Maths Week 2020.

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