11 Oct 2022

Thanks to a generous donation from Woongjin Thinkbig, ICMS is able to run a competiton with Maths Week Ireland for Irish Secondary School pupils to win a live mathematics workshop for their class with maths communicators Katie Steckles and Ben Sparks.

About the prize:
Magic and maths have gone together for hundreds of years. The reasoning behind many magic effects is inherently mathematical and logical, and mathematical tools can reveal the secrets if you’re brave enough to use them.
The session will cover topics in maths that aren’t usually part of the school curriculum, and some which you’d normally only meet if you study maths at university - but the problems will be accessible to students with the level of knowledge they currently have. The workshop will be suitable for S1-S3 students and can run to fit inside a one-hour lesson (if online) or a two-hour session (if in-person).

Workshops will be delivered either online via Zoom or in-person, depending on logistics and location of winners.

Workshops will be available Wednesday 30 Nov - Fri 2 Dec. 

Pi-ku submissions can be typed, hand written, or presented using other mediums.

Check out this website for some examples of pi-kus.

To enter:

Your school must be registered on the Maths Week Ireland website.  
Then complete the submission form found here, including up to 5 files (1 file could be a photograph of several poems for example): Submission form