Maths Puzzle Activity Day

The Problem Solving Company

Please note: Workshops only - We visit your school!

The School Puzzle Company is operated by Workshops At Schools Ltd. We have created a unique selection of puzzles providing all group members the chance to actively participate in our School Puzzle Activity Days. This is possible because we have enlarged all of our puzzles specifically for use by groups within the school setting. A typical sub group size, should you engage The School Puzzle Company, will be 6 pupils. By increasing the size of our puzzles allows the groups focus to be directly on the challenge in hand. It also prevents team members blocking the view for others, making the solving process a great Team Building exercise. Our aim is to maximise participation levels during the problem solving process. The larger puzzle pieces also allows other pupils to better observe their peers actions helping towards the groups communicating their thoughts and ideas on how to solve the challenges.

school trip at Maths Puzzle Activity Day

Why are The Problem Solving Company a great choice for bringing fun workshops into your school?

The School Puzzle Company offers a varied range of activities. This allows us to offer differentiated activities to suit their age and abilities. Our instructors are also trained to help support pupils that may need that extra support. This applies to both ends of the spectrum, from children needing that extra help understanding concepts to those children that exceed the understanding of others and require that extra challenge.

What activities are available during group visits?

We have carefully chosen our puzzles that we use in our workshops to promote a fun and lively maths curriculum. When this is combined with thinking skills and logical reasoning pupils start to have approach our puzzles with a new found mathematical understanding. Each of our puzzles has different stages of challenge allowing groups to move up to that next level of thinking.

Our puzzles vary from balancing seesaws with eggs, building bridges for a Prince to rescue his Princess through to city planning with skyscrapers. This is to name a few. We are happy to provide schools that make a booking with The School Puzzle Company a detailed list of our challenges with the maths skills associated with each. Some of these are detailed below:

Understanding 2D and 3D shapes
Weight distribution
Logical Thinking
Spatial Awareness
Code breaking
Measurement

What size groups do you cater for?

We can run our sessions with up to 60 pupils at a time.

Do you offer on-site classroom facilities?

We bring all of our activities to you!

Is there first aid on site?

No, but as we are in your school there is always someone on hand in the unlikely event first aid is required.

Do you offer access for visitors with disabilities?

We try to adapt our activities to make them accessible to all.

Do you cater for visitors with Special Educational Needs (SEN)?

We are able to adjust out challenges to cater for all.

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