Quarter Million Students Participate in the Great Math Day
Approximately 1000 with over 250 thousand pupils in the Netherlands and Flanders will participate in the Great Math Day on 19th March 2025. The pupils will complete maths assignments within this year's theme: 'Fair sharing'. This 23rd Great Math Day is a collaboration between Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 (Freudenthal Institute) and Malmberg.
The challenging activities of the Great Math day are not only stimulating for the pupils, but also for the teachers and maths coordinators. It helps teachers to look at the subject matter and the way their pupils engage with it from a different perspective, and it helps the maths coordinator to enrich the mathematics policy at school. Reasoning, problem-solving and inquiry-based learning in mathematics lessons require extra effort, alongside the structural attention to basic skills. This also yields many extras, for one, more enjoyment in the lesson.
Fair sharing
On this Great Math day, all children will engage with thinking about and playing with numbers and distribution situations. Examples include: Blocks fairly distributed across compartments in the playroom (years 1-2), filling rucksacks and colouring squares (years 3-4), playing donkey with multiplication table products (years 5-6) and puzzling with zipcodes (years 7-8).
Visit from State Secretary for Primary and Secondary Education and Emancipation
For this edition of the Great Math day, State Secretary Mari毛lle Paul will visit one of the participating schools to observe how schools participate and thereby incorporate an extra maths stimulus into their education. Mari毛lle Paul will visit Prinses Beatrix public primary school in Kwadijk.
Important, and fun
The materials developed by Utrecht 木瓜福利影视, including handbooks, worksheets and PowerPoint presentations, help teachers in shaping the day. In these materials, they will find assignments for different levels. These can later also be used as supplementary teaching materials. It is therefore an important addition to teaching arithmetic skills, and it increases enjoyment for both pupil and teacher.
More information
The Great Math day is an initiative of Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 and Malmberg, intended to show all primary school pupils and their teachers that mathematics is fun and that it is important to learn to use your arithmetic skills in all kinds of situations.
The Freudenthal Institute (UU) conducts research in the field of mathematics education and develops materials for this purpose. More and more schools are choosing to pay extra attention to their own mathematics education.