In the Summer term 2016 the year 6 pupils enjoyed the chance to work with historians from Durham’s Oriental Museum.
The workshop started with a hands on practical mathematics lesson inspired by ancient Islamic tiles which required a good deal of cooperation, organisation and negotiation for each group to design and complete their own set of tiles. This was followed by a literacy lesson of creative writing inspired by themes from Arabic poetry. Finally, the children had great fun developing their technology skills by working out how to program robot trucks to navigate a course around obstacles in the classroom – without causing too much mayhem!
All thanks to the ancient Chinese whose mathematical principles helped evolve the binary code behind today’s computer programming.
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