QUEEN Elizabeth Sixth Form College in Darlington recently teamed up with Greenfield Community College in Newton Aycliffe to create a series of school house challenges at Greenfield.
The challenges tested students' logic, musical maths and quick fire maths and built on their team work, confidence and numeracy.
The challenges were devised by Helen Greaves from QE and Mrs Bryony McKie from Greenfield with students from both QE and Greenfield helping.
It was a great opportunity for Greenfield students to meet ex Greenfield students who are now studying A Level maths at QE and to see them in action.
The challenges were designed to allow students of all abilities and ages to access the questions give them a chance to feel the excitement of maths and use the subject outside of the traditional classroom setting. The key point was to raise the profile of maths around the school and show students that they can do functional maths.
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