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To end the half-term, our top set Year 9 students have taken part in a week-long challenge embarking on a mathematical journey through history, visiting some of the world’s most influential civilisations and exploring how mathematics was developed to shape life as we know it now. 

Starting in Ancient Greece, they were challenged to think like Greek mathematicians, using logic and reasoning to prove mathematical statements as facts, and focusing on the use of Pythagoras theorem and geometry in real-world problems.

Pupils then visited Renaissance Italy, where they saw how geometry, constructions, ratio and transformations were used to develop perspective artworks and put some of these things into practice for themselves.

Next, pupils went to the House of Wisdom in Baghdad to work with al-Khwarizmi, the ‘father of algebra’, working with equations to break a code.

And finally, pupils visited Ancient Egypt, working with the Pharaoh to establish their civilisation by using area and perimeter to divide the land, percentages to develop taxation systems, fractions to organise rations and standard form to revolutionise the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic base 10 number system and improve trade records.

Well done to the whole class who worked really hard on these challenges, and especially a well done to the winners finishing on the most points overall for the week: Chase, Harvey, Logan and Dominic!