Maths Clubs

Secret codes and ciphers are ideal topics for investigation at after school or Saturday morning Maths Clubs. Code breaking develops problem-solving skills and promotes logical thinking, but it falls outside the scope of most regular maths classes.

Children of all ages love playing at being spies and deciphering coded messages.   Less able pupils can easily grasp the fundamental principles behind encoding and decoding, and more able pupils can extend the topic as far as they wish, developing their own codes and challenging their friends. The Code Book CD-ROM also offers some great interactive opportunities and exercises.

Enigma Project visits can be arranged to your Maths Club. It could make an ideal introduction to codes, or an excellent climax to a unit of work, or a fun treat to end a term. An hour -long talk can be followed by an hour in the ITC suit completing a 'mini cipher challenge' based on the CD-ROM.

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Demonstrating the Enigma machine with students at Brighton Maths Club