1. Mathematics

2. Quotation treasure hunt Around the school have been put various quotations about mathematics. Could you go to each in turn and in your groups decide what each quotation means and whether you agree with it.

3. Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe John Polkinghorne 1930 -

4. Everything that can be counted does not count. Everything that counts cannot be counted. Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955

5. Mathematics began when it was discovered that a brace of pheasants and a couple of days have something in common: the number two. Bertrand Russell 1872 - 1970

6. Instead of having “answers” on a math test, they should call them “impressions”, and if you got a different “impression”, so what, can’t we all be brothers? Jack Handy 1949- Can’t we settle this over a pint?

7. The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious, and there is no rational explanation for it Eugene Wigner 1902 - 1995

8. In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which will continue to exist there when the last of their radiant host shall have fallen from heaven Edward Everett 1794 - 1865

9. That’s it!