Department: Maths:  Homework Enrichment Tasks

Year 7

Read

  • The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos – Deborah Heiligman  
  • Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci – Joseph D’Agnese  
  • Infinity and Me – Kate Hosford  
  • On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein – Jennifer Berne  
  • 50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know – Tony Crilly  
  • Can you Solve my Problems? – Alex Bellos  
  • Snowflake Seashell Star – Alex Bellos and Edmund Harriss  
  • A Mathematical Pandora’s Box – Brian Bolt  
  • The Number Devil – Hans Magnus Enzensberger  

Research

  • Research about standard index form, why do we use it?  
  • Research Pythagoras. Who was he and what was his famous theorem?  
  • Research Katherine Johnson, who was she and what were her accomplishments?  
  • How can equations be used to support the Common Good? Are there any professions or vocations that use equations to help others?  

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Year 8

Read

  • Maths Like a Ninja – Andrew Jennings  
  • The Math Book – Clifford Pickover  
  • Alex’s Adventures in Numberland – Alex Bellos  
  • The Monty Hall Problem: Beyond Closed Doors – Rob Deaves  
  • The Language of Mathematics – Keith Devlin The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus – Hannah Fry and Thomas Oléron Evans  
  • Aha! Insight & aha! Gotcha – Martin Gardner  
  • The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage – Sydney Padua  

Research

  • Research Surds.  
  • Research Trigonometry.  
  • Conduct research on your Maths Class name. Who were Turing, Nightingale, Lovelace and Hawking. What were their mathematical achievements and legacy. How are they remembered?  
  • Who is your favourite Mathematician, do you think we should rename a Maths class after them and why?  

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Year 9

Read

  • The Language of Mathematics – Keith Devlin  
  • The Music of the Primes – Marcus Du Sautoy  
  • Chaos – James Gleick  
  • Euclid’s Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace – Leonard Mlodinow  
  • Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers – Vicky Neale  
  • Fermat’s Last Theorem – Simon Singh  
  • The Code Book – Simon Singh  
  • Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles – Martin Gardner  
  • My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles – Martin Gardner  
  • How Many Socks Make a Pair? – Rob Eastaway  
  • Why do Buses Come in Threes? – Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham 

Research

  • …Transformations  
  • …Pythagoras and his life. Why was he important?  
  • …Mathematicians from the Second World War such as Alan Turing, Gordon Welchman and Bill Tutte. What were there achievements? Did they make the world safer and better?  
  • …the role of women in Maths during the 19th century. What were their achievements, how did they change the world? 

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