{"id":1024,"date":"2016-02-06T15:16:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T15:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2016-02-06T15:16:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T15:16:25","slug":"royal-institution-mathematics-masterclasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/royal-institution-mathematics-masterclasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Institution Mathematics Masterclasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend the University of Southampton hosted the first of this year\u2019s series of Royal Institution mathematics masterclasses.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/files\/2016\/02\/masterclasses.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1025\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/files\/2016\/02\/masterclasses-300x200.png\" alt=\"masterclasses\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/files\/2016\/02\/masterclasses-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/files\/2016\/02\/masterclasses.png 1007w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>are designed to encourage, inspire and engage young people in the art and practice of mathematics. The highly interactive\u00a0sessions introduce students to aspects or applications of maths which may not usually be covered in the school curriculum, and open young people\u2019s eyes to the excitement, beauty and real-world value of mathematics.\u00a0 This series of five Mathematics Masterclasses has been arranged and coordinated by Ruth Edwards (UoS), Gillian Eacott (Amery Hill school) and David Creed (Henry Beaufort school).\u00a0 Over fifty year 9 pupils from 20 schools in Hampshire are taking part in the masterclasses where they will be exploring a range of topics such as mathematical optimisation, codes, cosmology and computer graphics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend the University of Southampton hosted the first of this year\u2019s series of Royal Institution mathematics masterclasses.\u00a0 are designed to encourage, inspire and engage young people in the art and practice of mathematics. The highly interactive\u00a0sessions introduce students to aspects or applications of maths which may not usually be covered in the school curriculum, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4217],"tags":[457126,1030391,598367],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-institution","tag-masterclasses","tag-royal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}