Hi everyone, Welcome to a brand new year and brace yourselves.. It is going to be Epic! We have many exciting projects lined up, including 3 special guests from the USA in the first few months of this year! We also have the return of our Awesome Merchandise range, new collaborations with international partners, the return of our annual Space tour and so much more! We are delighted to have new schools (both local and international) join us this year and I am planning a few International trips with some of our partner organisations! Our first cycle of ONLINE classes will be starting up on the 1st of February. More information can be found below. I am involved with some interesting Edu-partners and every now and again I will be posting wonderful opportunities for your child to take part in an event or competition. See the Minecraft Airport Building competition below - which was won by a student of ours! We might need children to appear in an international online event working with a famous author or scientist. We will try to update our website with all of these events and keep you posted. I am delighted to be teaching online weekly at MoMath in New York, working with StreamableLearning.com and teaching the fabulous first graders at Pound Ridge Elementary in New York. Last year we had an awesome time running in-person and online events for both Maths and Science Week in Ireland and I am looking forward to more of these events later this year. Our Maths Olympiad ran very smoothly and judging by the feedback, it was a resounding success. Statistics and information about the event can be found on our website. We have already started up the in-person classes and it is wonderful to see the smiling happy faces of our students again! Thank you for joining us on our adventure and we look forward to bringing you more excitement as the year progresses. Guest Speakers - We will be embarking on National tours with our speakers and we will use venues that have backup power to ensure loadshedding does not spoil the fun! February: In a couple of weeks we will be hosting Prof Arthur Benjamin, AKA The Mathemagician. He is a human calculator and performs impressive mental arithmetic faster than the audience can use their calculators! We are planning to host Prof Benjamin in Cape Town, Gauteng and Durban. The last time he was in South Africa, every show was sold out! Tickets will go on sale shortly as we confirm the venues and dates. We will also be doing some school visits and schools will have an opportunity to register in a lottery to be selected for a visit. March: I am delighted to have my good friend Janet Ivey, Emmy-award winner, Actress, Author, CEO of Explore Mars and Chief in charge of Janet's Planet come and join us in South Africa. There will be some public talks and some school visits. More information will be provided over the next week or two. May: We are delighted to start up our Space Tour of 2023 with former NASA Astronaut, Nicole Stott. Nicole is an astronaut, an aquanaut, an artist and an author. This multi-talented and exceptional presenter will be joining me on a national tour where we will be visiting schools, putting on public talks and connecting with the media. This is your opportunity to meet a real astronaut face to face! If your business would like to be involved with sponsoring a day or an event, please get in touch with me ASAP as we are looking to finalize the itinerary soon. If you want to have one of our guests come to YOUR school or you want to host an evening event, then please complete this form: https://forms.gle/NW1V2fmEZ6PicfQq8 . Please note: Where possible we will be giving preference to schools enrolled on the Living Maths program. SPACE TOUR 2023 During the year we are often hosting role models and key players in the space industry where we take them around to schools and arrange public talks. This year we will kick off with Janet Ivey in March and she will be doing one or two public talks about Space as well as some school visits. In March we will then host NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott and we are finalising public talk venues and dates as you read this. We will have several more Space Industry icons lined up and watch this space for announcements. Over the next few days we will begin posting dates and venues for our Space Tour and other guest speakers. Tickets will be sold on a first come first served basis. We will be visiting Cape Town, Gauteng, PE and possibly Durban. Online Classes for children from Grade R (Kindergarten) to Grade 8 - Join in on the fun! New cycle starting on 1st of February! Cycle 1 2023 (6 weeks) will be starting up Wednesday the 1st of February and will come to an end on the 8th of March. Note we are now only offering the classes on Wednesdays. Online classes are a wonderful and safe way to take part in your favourite extramural without leaving the comfort of your home. Judging by the number of students that are returning each cycle, this is a strong indicator that they are enjoying and benefiting from the weekly classes. If you would like to sign up for the classes, do not waste any time. If you snooze you lose. Click here to register your child <https://forms.gle/d8iwTDUNf7qXPnVT6> Loving Maths classes are for students from Grade R(K) up to grade 3. They are 30 mins long and they are story based. There will be a weekly episode where the students will need to assist the hero/heroine solve a problem. The lesson often ends with a fun maths related game. Students are introduced to problem solving and critical thinking in a fun environment. Living Maths classes are aimed at students from Grade 4-8. They are 1 hour long, and each lesson is independent of the others. We spend time working through fun brainteasers, problems, games that involve strategy and this often leads to fruitful and thought-provoking discussions. It is not for marks, and we always examine the solutions so that the students can see the various techniques and methods of approaching the problems. The Presenter The classes are presented by Mr S. I have been running Living Maths for the past 26 years and was recently awarded the Global Teacher Award of 2020 out of a pool of teachers from 110 countries. I work with a few hundred teachers around the world and I am both a Microsoft Innovator Educator Expert as well as 1 of only 2 Global Learning Mentors in South Africa (previously known as Skype Master Teachers). I teach a few thousand students every week from K- grade 12, I run monthly events for the Museum of Mathematics in New York, I teach online classes for Streamable Learning.com and I have presented at the South African, Namibian, Botswana, Ireland and Berlin National Science weeks. I recently ran events for the Irish Maths and Science Week, the UK national Science Week as well as STEM Science Camps in the USA and UK. In short, you can be assured that the lessons are professionally presented, and the content is of an international standard. In other words, your child's tuition is in good hands. Minecraft Airport Building competition Collaborate with friends to build an Airport using Minecraft and learn valuable skills, connect with leaders in the Air industry and most of all have an absolute ball doing it. https://www.faa.gov/airport-design-challenge?fbclid=IwAR3tmKD52eimX8i7pmGYXu nhOG3c5xDp8DKKeKOZXagwL7IKH4mN1F6syIA The fourth annual Imagine Cup Junior for students is now live! The Microsoft Imagine Cup Junior is a global student competition for students ages 13-18. Through ICJ, educators utilize lessons to teach their students about AI technologies, students form teams, and apply these lessons to dream up a concept or idea to make a difference in their local community or world around them. Students explain their concept in a PowerPoint template and record a video to illustrate their concept. No coding is required, and the competition is open to any student who is interested in learning more about AI. New this year! We received feedback from last year that some teams would like to build a prototype for their concept so this year we're providing information to access <https://azure.microsoft.com/free/students/> Azure for Students where Team Leaders can add students to collaborate and create a prototype of their concept. Also new this year is a <https://education.minecraft.net/> Minecraft: Education Edition lesson on ethical AI. This lesson provides educators and additional pathway to support student learning. Merchandise In the past we bring out a T-shirt with a fun design. Do you remember the "1 in a minion" "Mathstronaut in Training", etc ? Well once the T-shirts are ready they will be available for order and we will only be making a limited number so first-come-first-served. As soon as the T-shirts are available we will re-introduce the T-shirt spotting competition where you can win instant prizes for being spotted with our latest T-shirt. Bookings for Physical Parties and Corporate Teambuilding are filling quickly! We are already back to running our wonderful birthday parties, corporate team building and teacher workshops in person! Yes, we will come out to you and put on a fun event and you can sit back and relax while we do the work. Our crazy and fun-filled birthday parties, are tailored to the interests of the birthday boy or girl. They are designed to be interactive, and the kids will be smiling the whole time! The reviews from the parties, workshops and events are always positive. Contact us if you would like us to plan a bespoke event for you. If you are interested, then click here to book your event. <https://forms.gle/daP1tKvYsKwJJQHA8> We offer BINGO, Quizzes, Scavenger hunts, online games and activities and so much more. We also run virtual parties and events too . International Competitions, prizes and events The Big List of Student Contests and Competitions. Enter these international competitions - over 50 listed events! https://www.weareteachers.com/student-contests-competitions/?fbclid=IwAR3cYW NZRMXBThJC6uTfiyQHqp7egOx0SAvT1GDeF-6ZRYJmID2_OhHCduo Interesting links for you to check out. We have some cool weblinks for you <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fYuPc0ePqEzRwAlPLHWY0SWtDJhS9Af-ezhNWy8 ylHc/edit?usp=sharing> - click here Stay safe and take care. Mr S and the Living Maths Team. Ps: If you no longer wish to receive these emails as your children are grown up, or you want to de"POPIA" yourself or you are merely want to Mari Kondo your inbox then please click here <mailto:livmath@iafrica.com?subject=Remove%20cybermail> and we will do our best to remove your email address from our current mailing list. Please note that sometimes your current email address is not listed as we have a much older one on our database. Email us and we will be in touch with you if this is the case. Sometimes you can get lucky by clicking on the unsubscribe button at the bottom of this email. Steve Sherman (Chief Imagination Officer and Executive Day Dreamer) 2020 Global Teacher Award Executive Member of the Global Education Network 2 x TEDx Speaker Microsoft Innovator Educator Expert Microsoft Global Connector (formerly known as Skype Master Teacher) Mote Certified Educator Verified Kahoot Academy Educator and Kahoot Ambassador Space Foundation's International Teacher Liaison P.O. 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