The practicality of mathematics is demonstrated wonderfully in the world of measurement. In this camp we will build on the child's natural curiosity, looking at the world around us to understand length, distance, weight and time. To add excitement we will look at the origins and history of measurements to show how mankind’s ability to quantify has grown in sophistication over time. Pupils will also tackle mathematical problems and play games to develop their powers of logic while programming in Junior Scratch will reveal computer based methods of measurement. As ever we will be teaching a chess class each day so pupils can also quantify their progress in this venerable game!

Over five exciting days filled with knowledge, logic and problem solving, camp participants will study:

• units of measurement discovered and used at different times and in different places on Earth 
• measuring on land and on water 
• interesting historical facts about the origin and development of the measurement system 
• comparing units from differing measurement systems 
• solving problems (including tasks with different measurement systems) 
• coding in Junior Scratch 
• the tactics and strategy of chess