Maths is at the centre of all things science, and climate change is no different.
To understand climate change, scientists have measured many climatic and weather variables such as temperature, rainfall accumulations, pressure and atmospheric CO2concentrations. Mathematical skills allow us to explore these observations, finding trends and looking at the statistics. Maths allows us to create equations that allow us to work out what will happen in the future, be it the weather for the weekend or predicting the future climate in 50 years. Maths also helps us to unpick the social science of climate change.
RMetS, supported by Dr Frost Learning, are challenging students to explore the broad topic of climate change and the many possible links it has to mathematics by writing their own maths problems and questions, suitable in skill and style to the National 4/5.
This challenge will be split into two sections: writing questions and peer reviewing questions from another group/class.
Competition documents:
Please find all the documents necessary for this competition below. The instructions sheet should contain all necessary information, but if you have further queries please contact education@rmets.org with ‘Maths Week Scotland’ in the subject.
If you are entering the challenge, please also make sure you have added yourself to our Maths Week Scotland schools map!
Competition prizes:
Every school/class which submits an entry for all 18 linked questions will be awarded with a certificate.
For the best question in each topic, a voucher will be awarded (£5 Amazon vouchers for each student, up to £15 maximum for a group). We will contact you, the teacher/guardian, if one of your questions has won. It is then your responsibility to pass the prize on to the correct group of students who wrote the winning question.
*All submissions must be made by an adult, either a teacher on behalf of a school/class or a legal guardian if the competition is entered by a student who is home schooled.
We love science festivals here at Maths Week Scotland, as there's always lots of maths involved! To help you keep up to date with all the science festivals happening in Scotland this year, we've made a list of the ones we know about and we'll update the list throughout the year.
