Rubik's cubes, mad scientists and even Greek philosophers helped youngsters celebrate a festival of mathematics.
On Wednesday, February 13, South Molton United CofE Primary School held the festival to develop the awareness of maths and also the links between cross-curricular areas.
The children dressed up as a person who worked with maths and during the day children worked closely with Sciencedipity, Katy the Storyteller and also had maths sessions with their parents back in the classrooms.
Parents and children baked maths cakes to help fund all the activities, and the school were supported by their PTFA.
Debbie Leach, maths leader, said: “As a school, we appreciate the value of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) subjects and found it very difficult to find a career which did not involve using maths in some form or another.
“It has been an exciting day, where the whole school were involved in sharing our learning with the community. I would personally like to thank all those who helped make the day possible.”
Katie Cawkwell, a freelance storyteller, added: “Today I’ve been finding folk tales and myths that have got mathematical problems in them. It’s a fun and entertaining way for the children to solve maths problems through listening to a story and doing the maths to help the story on its way.
“It’s a great way of trying to make maths exciting and embed it into all different parts of life and not just keeping it in the classroom and in the maths lesson. It’s a creative thing to do to bring it into other parts of the curriculum and other stories.”