Motivate goes to the Imperial War Museum Duxford: Maths and Flight
Speaker:
Peter Halford
Curriculum links:
Maths and ... Design and Technology
Age range:
13 to 15
Cost:
£195 for up to 40 students, more pro rata (cancellation policy)
Date of VC1:
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Date of VC2:
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Time of VC(s):
10.30am start (UK time), duration 75 mins approx (but allow 10 mins either way)
Places still available?:
Yes - book a place / create an account: you will need to create an account for your school if this is the first VC you've booked with us since September 2009. We will be in the award winning AirSpace exhibition hall at the Imperial War Museum Duxford, surrounded by historic aircraft for VC1, where we will find out about:
- how aircraft have developed over the past hundred years, and what factors have led to that development
- the maths that is part of this history
- the logistical problem for the museum - how on earth do you get all those aircraft into a restricted space?
Follow-up project work for students will include:
- the relationship between technology, conflict and sport and the arrival of mass transport
- supersonic flight
- Cayley, his career and experiments on inclined planes
- getting the aircraft into the museum
Peter Halford, who will be leading this conference, organises schools' visits to the museum. If you are sufficiently near to Cambridgeshire you might want to consider a visit as part of this conference.
