The Risks of Life
Long Project Title:
The Risks of Life
Speaker:
Nadia Baker
Age range:
12 to 14
Participating schools:
St Joseph's College, London
Participating schools:
Wyedean School and Sixth Form Centre, Gloucs
Participating schools:
Karachi High School, Pakistan
Time of VCs:
10.30 start (UK time), lasting for between 60 and 75 minutes
Date of VC1:
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Date of VC2:
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Date of VC3:
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Date of VC4:
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Date of VC5:
Friday, May 7, 2010
Date of VC6:
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - Is it worth playing the lottery?
- Does the skill and experience of the manager make a difference to a football team, or are the results too random for it to matter?
- When it looks to good to be true, what aren't they telling you?
- Which newspaper headlines are telling the truth?
- How can we know if someone has been wrongly accused of committing a crime?
- Why do coincidences happen so often?
The Risks of Life will give students an opportunity to engage with questions like these through interactive game-show style videoconferences, enabling them to discover how mathematics will help them make sense of the real world in situations involving risk, probability, chance and uncertainty.
