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Motivate
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• This project gave students and teachers
• the opportunity to
• extend the curriculum in a real-life context
• link maths and science
• participate in genuine research
• work collaboratively and/or individually on tasks
  both within the school and with other schools
• give presentations on their work, and to respond
  to questions and receive feedback on it

• Pedagogic Aims of the
• Motivate Project
• to enrich students mathematical/scientific
  experience and widen their educational horizons
• to build confidence a sense of belonging to the
  mathematical/scientific community
• to develop creative and critical thinking, and an
  understanding of maths and science as relevant,
  living subjects
• to develop cross-curricular resources for
  schools
• to enable students to carry out
  mathematical/scientific research for themselves

• WORK AND PLAY
• DISEASE SPREAD, SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND DATA
  COLLECTION IN SCHOOLS
• This research project, funded by the Wellcome
  Trust, was a collaboration between a Mathematics
  Research Team in the Department of Applied Maths
  and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University
  of Cambridge, the Motivate Project and UK
  schools.

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Research Focus School students collected data
which was used by the research team for research
into disease dynamics. The data forms a
significant and valuable data set.

• Overview of topics considered during this
  project
• The importance of understanding disease spread.
• The advantages and disadvantages of vaccination.
• The ethics of data collection
• Collecting and analysing the data how to do it
• What problems might be encountered
• Overcoming problems

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• Schools part in the research
• To gather baseline information about one or two
  local primary schools by phone or email.
• To go into primary schools to collect
  questionnaire data.
• To determine from the data how primary children
  mix with each other, focusing on interactions
  both within and between classes.
• Preliminary analysis of the data.
• Presentation of findings.