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NRICH's impact has been highlighted in a report and new interactive map produced by the University of Cambridge.

Our NRICH mathematics education project is celebrating 25 years of support for schools, teachers, students and parents.

A collaboration between the Mathematics and Education Faculties, NRICH focuses on developing problem-solving, supporting every stage of school education with free online resources for ages 3-19 and their teachers.

For the past 18 months Plus has been working with the Stephen Hawking Centre for Theoretical Cosmology on a major new Discovery Channel short documentary series. The Universe Unravelled series premiered on Discovery+ in November 2020, coinciding with the UK launch of this new digital platform. It's aimed at anyone who is curious about the Universe we live in, with no previous knowledge of cosmology required. In over 20 short episodes the series explores what we already know about the Universe, what cosmologists are working on right now, and what they hope to find out in the future.

When the COVID-19 pandemic closed UK schools in March 2020, our NRICH programme reacted swiftly to lend vital support to schoolchildren, their parents and teachers. It continues to provide essential help, both in classrooms and with homeschooling. The NRICH project provides thousands of free online mathematics resources for ages 3 to 18, which focus on developing mathematical thinking and problem-solving.

We are deeply saddened by the death on 26 September 2020 of Professor John Barrow, MMP Director since 1999. John was a renowned cosmologist and mathematical physicist, and Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge as well as Director of the MMP.

Sadly, due to COVID-19 the Cambridge Science Festival has been cancelled and our Hands-On Maths Fair scheduled for Saturday 21 March will not take place. However, you can still explore many of our family maths activities and games at home through our NRICH and Wild Maths websites.

For the 4th year running, NRICH is working in collaboration with the Tower Hamlets Education Partnership to support schools, teachers and pupils in the borough. Over the course of the 2019/20 academic year, NRICH staff are leading a series of linked face-to-face professional development days for primary teachers from schools in Tower Hamlets, exploring effective ways of developing problem-solving, reasoning and fluency - the key aims of the primary curriculum - in their classrooms.

NRICH will be at the world-renowned Hay Festival again this year to run family workshops giving parents and children the opportunity to work together on engaging, creative and thought-provoking mathematical problem-solving activities. Being resilient, curious, resourceful and collaborative are great characteristics which are also enormously important in mathematical development.

Every UK state school student holding a conditional offer to study Mathematics at the University of Cambridge was invited to join us in March 2019 for an intensive full-day event to help prepare for the STEP exam. STEP is an additional mathematics examination which forms part of conditional offers to applicants for mathematics, and some related degress, at Cambridge and a number of other universities. The STEP exam covers content based on the A-level Maths and Further Maths syllabus, but questions are different in style, and designed to be more like those you meet at university.