HOME JOIN US ABOUT US WHO WE ARE SAFEGUARDING LEARN WITH US CONTACT US Head's Welcome Login ABOUT US » News » Maths Investigation Day - "Big Numbers, Great Ideas" Maths Investigation Day - "Big Numbers, Great Ideas" Some Year 8 students visited The National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park Estate in Milton Keynes, on 5th March 2020. A tour of the museum introduced us to the world famous, ultra-secret code-breaking efforts of Alan Turing and his colleagues. The mathematicians, programmers, morse code experts etc. during wartime 1940s who broke the codes of the German Enigma and Lorenz cypher machines , ultimately shortening the Second World War. How this then gave rise to the first true computers, large mainframes of the 1950s - 70s, and the rise of personal computing in the 1980s and the internet and beyond. Great fun was had playing the retro computer games. Who remembers Space Invaders? Students then became a human Enigma machine and learnt about the maths behind code breaking, the thousands of possible coding combinations and how a machine, The Bombe, was built to speed up the manual process of these calculations. They then went on to understand how prime numbers, patterns, statistics and probability are used to ‘hack’ more complex codes and encryptions. An information packed day had by all and we hope to return again soon. ABOUT US DATES & TIMES OFSTED REPORT EXAM RESULTS EXAM RESULTS 2018 EXAM RESULTS 2019 EXAM RESULTS 2020 EXAM RESULTS 2021 POLICIES & PROCEDURES DATA PROTECTION THE GOVERNING BOARD PARENT GOVERNOR ELECTIONS 2021 FACILITIES LETTINGS CATERING UNIFORM FINANCIAL INFORMATION EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY PUPIL PREMIUM YEAR 7 CATCH-UP PREMIUM NEWS NEWS ARCHIVE NEWSLETTERS Admissions/ New Students Homework and Reporting Dates and Times Work with Us/ Talent Pool Letters WisePay Finedon Road, Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire NN9 5TY T 01933 650496 E enquiries@huxlow.northants.sch.uk W https://www.huxlow.northants.sch.uk/ Headteacher Paul Letch Back to the top School Web Design by FSE Design