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Out of the Classroom, Into the Gallery
This Teachers TV resource features two mathematics teachers, from Framwellgate School in Durham, who are challenged to produce a cross curricular lesson.
Elaine Fisher and Rosslyn Taylor are taken to Newcastle's Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art where they are met by teacher-turned-artist James Johnson-Perkins, who gives them three specially chosen resources which are the vital components for the lesson they will be teaching to a class of Year Eight students.
The four unique bridge designs on the river Tyne are the stimulus for the lesson and Adam Goldwater, from the Discovery Museum in Newcastle, has some tips on how they might use the coal and weighing scales he has chosen in their lesson. Steve Humble, from the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics, provides an equation showing the relationship between joints and beams on a bridge.
The Baltic gallery is the location for the lesson and students are challenged to design and construct bridges that will allow a boat to pass beneath their model. Higher level thinking skills are demonstrated by the students who relish the practical nature of the lesson and use their knowledge of geometry to produce three very different bridge designs.
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