Tape donation boosts pupil’s numeracy skills
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Diversified technology company 3M has earned a big thank you from a London charity by donating more than 750 rolls of masking tape which will help youngsters develop their numeracy skills in a variety of novel ways.
MakeBelieve Arts is a London-based theatre and education charity which, among its many educational programmes, researches and develops ways in which creativity can help to promote improvements in numeracy. Its teams deliver workshops which support young learners who are believed to be at risk of missing out on educational opportunities through factors such as poverty or a lack of parental support.
The 3M General Purpose Masking Tape has been used in several ways, including marking out giant human shapes on the floor for creative mathematics exercises around scale and size; dividing table tops into area of fertile and arid land for a session on Farming for Fractions; and marking out giant grids on the floors of school halls to either explore graphs and shape rotation, or to help pupils develop numeracy skills around planning the layout of a new town.
Trisha Lee, Artistic Director of MakeBelieve Arts, explained: "We are a Social Enterprise with charitable status and the donation of these sorts of materials to allow us to run our workshops, so the masking tape donation from 3M was especially welcome, given the variety of uses to which it can be put."
