On Wednesday 7th 2017, two teams (one from year five and one from year six) went to the Hermitage to participate in a 'Maths Challenge'. The teams had previously been told that they needed to prepare items for a poster on René Descartes, a famous mathematician, philosopher and scientist from the 16th century.
When the teams got there, they had to complete various challenging maths tasks, relay rounds, puzzles and games as well as having the original poster competition. The material that had been researched had to be organised onto an A2 sheet of paper. Every round had a maximum amount of points which could be awarded to the teams and all of the points were added together to find an overall winner of the competition. Red Rose's year five team came 5th and the year six team came 1st. With this good position, the year 6 team will be going to the final later in the year.
They all enjoyed the day.
"It was fun and very challenging."
A year 6 pupil.
