Hosted exclusively in Leeds throughout 2026 and 2027, City of Maths is a pioneering initiative that will transform the city into a vibrant hub of mathematical discovery, play and community engagement.
00:00City of Maths, it's a two-year initiative and it's the UK's first ever City of Maths, which we're delighted to bring to the City of Leeds.
00:09Really, the purpose of it is to make people feel good about maths, to understand that maths is everywhere, it's part of our everyday lives, and really it's quite magical and inspiring as a subject.
00:21So we want people to feel really comfortable with it. There's often been a bit of a stereotype that maths can be boring or people maybe struggle to do it and don't feel comfortable with it in the past.
00:31So we really want to show people that it's fun, it's engaging, and people absolutely can and should do it and have lots of fun taking part in the range of activities, events, initiatives, resources that we've got going on over the next two years as part of the City of Maths programme.
00:48So we're working with a range of brilliant stakeholders and partners from ASDA, Leeds Light Night, Leeds Rhinos Foundation, Leeds Bid, to put on a whole range of events, experiences, initiatives, resources, going to all the primary and secondary schools across the City of Leeds.
01:06We're going to be doing a lot with primary schools, they're one of our core aims of the project to really engage and inspire young children across the City and work with the amazing teachers that are doing that day in, day out, and how can we really support them to bring maths as a really strong part of their everyday lives.
01:22Maths City in the centre of Leeds has recently moved to a new premises, so I really do encourage people to come down and check it out.
01:30It's much bigger and full of a range of different interactives that anyone can do across any age.
01:38We really want people to go to the centre, see that maths is fun and engaging, much like what we're doing with City of Maths.
01:45There's a range of different interactives for people to get involved in and it's just part of a really fun day out.
01:51I know myself, personally, I was one of those people when I was at school who just thought, I can't do maths, I don't feel comfortable with it at all as a subject.
01:57But certainly since starting this job and with the City of Maths team, I've understood way more that actually, no, I can do it.
02:04I do it as part of my everyday life.
02:06I mean, on a weekly basis, I'm looking to see how many goals Leeds need to score, how many games we need to win to where we are in the league table.
02:14You know, that's a massive part of maths, strictly come dancing with the score table.
02:18It's really basic, obvious stuff, I know, but maths is everywhere and people can do it.
02:22And I think everyone should feel that they can do something and feel comfortable in something, whether it's maths, English, whatever it is.
02:29But maths is such a key part of our lives and we're going into future careers, critical thinking, just how we approach things in life, budgeting.
02:38And it's not about making people professors of maths or making maths like my career brilliant, if that is the case.
02:45But just really knowing, yeah, I can do maths, I enjoy doing maths and I want to show maths to others and really have a great experience taking part in the City of Maths programmes over the next two years.
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