Heriot Watt & SCHOLAR - Live Online Maths Workshops

Описание: This short video gives an overview of the online maths workshops offered by Heriot-Watt University and SCHOLAR to secondary school students.

The workshops currently available are:

Love Actuary (S5/S6)
In this interactive workshop, we explore how you can apply maths in the real world, in areas of finance and beyond, looking at the career of an actuary in managing risk to protect people and their money. You'll have the chance to try some typical calculations underlying an actuary's work, and we'll have a look at the risks involved in real life financial problems facing the world today. How much would you charge a top sportsman for insurance against the danger of injury? How can we help prepare financially to protect against climate change? It's all in a day's work for an actuary!

What are the chances?! (S2/S3)
In this interactive workshop, we explore how we can apply maths and probability to scientifically measure the chances of events happening, and how we can combine the probabilities of different events together. We'll also take a look at how we can use these ideas to solve an unusual mathematical conundrum called the Monty Hall Problem!

Questioning the Answers (S2)
In this interactive workshop, we explore the importance of looking at the information lurking behind the numbers when we draw conclusions, and how we might be able to carry out some approximations to fact-check the numbers we're presented with. How many pizzas do people in Scotland eat every day? Is it possible to say the alphabet 300 times in 10 minutes? Let's see if we can work it out!