Climate Thinking

  Ideas for Infiltrating the MATHS Classroom!  We might think that only some subjects naturally lend themselves to climate education – understanding our changing climate and weather patterns in geography, for example, or learning about aspects of the climate and ecosystems in science.  But this is a world crisis that underpins everything, and as such, all subjects have a role to play. Baba Dioum, Senegalese poet and environmentalist, famously said: “In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we are taught.”   The subject of mathematics, developed over centuries, can be a creative and highly inter-connected branch of learning that p rovides a groundwork for understanding our beautiful world, helping pupils (and staff) to celebrate and deepen our love for nature. Is Maths Even Real? A recent TikTok video from an American high school student, showing her deliberating (whilst applying make...