Thursday 25 January 2024
During the first school week of 2024, Year 5 at Le Rondin were the lucky recipients of the Maths Roadshow, being run by Maths teacher Duncan Loweth from Elizabeth College.
The roadshow presents students with a series of problem-solving challenges and puzzles designed to stimulate and challenge them, and engage their logic and reasoning skills.
Mr Loweth arrived with a suitcase, packed with the puzzles, all of which were set up around a classroom. The children then moved from one challenge to another as they learned to think 'outside of the box'.
Kim Hutchison, Head of Primary Learning and Development, said:
"Duncan set up the Maths Roadshow in an effort to provide specialised maths expertise within the primary school and to encourage wider collaboration and partnership across the island with the goal of securing excellent maths provision for all. This kind of collaborative working is hugely beneficial to our students, and making a sometimes-daunting subject such as maths into something engaging and stimulating is key to its teaching. I'd like to thank Duncan for the work he has put into the roadshow and we look forward to showing it to more of our schools."
Duncan Loweth, Maths Teacher at Elizabeth College, said:
"It is a privilege for my colleagues and me, and the Elizabeth College students who accompany us when they can, to visit primary schools across the Bailiwick and be inspired by the incredible enthusiasm of the pupils participating in our Maths Roadshow. Witnessing their curiosity and engagement with the logic puzzles is truly heartening, and it reinforces the importance of fostering a love for mathematics at an early age. I'm particularly pleased when pupils realise that they are still learning about the maths and logic even when they don't find a solution to a problem and that 'keeping going' is in itself a measure of success. I hope that they take forward the confidence to embrace getting things wrong as an important part of their learning journey alongside a love of logic puzzles and mathematics."
