The opening of the Winton Gallery offers a new destination for maths-inspired school outings. Susan Elkin takes a look, and also considers some other useful classroom resources to support maths education

A maths colleague once told me that she always volunteered to go on extra-curricular English, art and geography trips because her own subject offered no field trip opportunities.

Nowadays there are – along with other resources – trip destinations which make maths fun and relevant for everyone. Below are some ideas and inspiration.

The Winton Gallery at the Science Museum opened last autumn. The content is based around 100 items from the Science Museum’s collection. Each tells, or contributes to, a powerful story about how maths has shaped, or been shaped by, some of our most fundamental human concerns – from trade and travel to war, peace, life, death, form and beauty – during the last four centuries.

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