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Maths

An innovative and successful mathematics education project at the University of Cambridge is celebrating the relaunch of the UK's largest and most popular maths enrichment resources website.

The NRICH website publishes problems, games, challenges and investigations for ages five to 19, designed to enrich mathematics learning and to help pupils develop their mathematical reasoning skills, confidence and understanding. Pupils are encouraged to send in solutions to problems, with a selection of the solutions published on the site.

Plus is an internet magazine published five times a year which aims to introduce readers to the beauty and the practical applications of mathematics. Whether you want to know how to build a sundial, how to keep your messages safe or what shape the universe is, it's all here.

MOTIVATE is a real-time videoconferencing project for schools that enables students of all ages (5-18) to work with professional mathematicians, finding out how maths is used in the real world, solving problems and presenting their work.

Science

The groundbreaking online science learning resource, www.schoolscience.co.uk, has been designed to make science relevant and demonstrate the application of science in industry and technology, and the many and varied career choices available to young scientists.

The site is free to users. Resources about recent and current scientific issues are tailored for school children and, by describing the basic and cutting edge science being practised in manufacturing and research laboratories around the country, schoolscience hopes to inspire the pursuit of science to a higher level.

The site is entirely funded by sponsorship from industry leaders; in order to maintain its educational integrity and relevance all resources are written and evaluated by teachers with the help of leading scientists.

The Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development (SEED) program connects disadvantaged school children in developing countries to the Internet, shares the real world of science through a multilingual online science center, and facilitates collaborative projects among school children around the world.

The SEED program was created in 1998 in response to information and communication technology needs in developing countries, to the challenges of science education around the world, and in recognition of the resources Schlumberger could provide to help address these challenges.

SEED operates through three program components:

a Connectivity Grant Program offering financing and technical assistance to connect disadvantaged schools in economically developing countries to the Internet,

a multilingual online Science Center that shares the knowledge and expertise of Schlumberger scientists and engineers with 10-18 year olds around the world, and

Collaborative Projects where SEED facilitates collaboration between school children around the world to encourage teamwork and project-based learning