科学组组长Mr. Jordan Cochrane带领哈罗学子们领略国际象棋的对弈战术，介绍六种棋子車、馬、象、王、王后及兵的布局和走法，并请哈罗学子比较国际象棋与中国象棋的差异，了解中西在棋盘上的背后逻辑。

学习了充足的理论知识后，大家分组进行国际象棋和中国象棋的博弈，在实战中对棋盘逻辑有了更深刻的理解。倾听能力和应用能力在活动中得以体现，Mr. Jordan计划为学生寻找比赛机会。

在这个活动中，数学老师Mr. Giuseppe Miolli以一个引人入胜的魔术卡片游戏拉开序幕，紧接着是预测两个不同的数字，他带领学生深入探讨了解释预测准确性的基本公式，鼓励学生们根据自创的公式创建自己的游戏。

他指导学生用简单的方法解决三乘三和五乘五的魔方问题。为了保持游戏的刺激性，他还简要介绍了一些流行的博弈谜语游戏，如蒙蒂-霍尔问题和三个囚犯的困境，让同学们领略了这门数学更多的魅力，发现了这门学科的一个新维度。

在中国传统文化中，有一些博弈游戏历久弥新，经久不衰，博饼就是其中一项。物理老师Ms. Clara Liu将这个福建闽南地区非物质文化遗产保护的棋牌游戏带入课堂。根据规则，“博”出的大小依次为状元、对堂、三红、四进、二举、一秀，越大“博”到的概率越低。

同学们在“博饼”游戏的过程中可以感受到数学中概率的奥秘，在平常的数学课中就有学习概率的内容，在博饼游戏中学习也能加深学子对概率的理解。

荷兰画家蒙德里安的新塑主义闻名于世，他的作品简约纯粹，仅使用简单的线条、直角和原色块作画。在课堂上，数学老师Mr. Bryn Jia带领学生破解蒙德里安拼图谜题，尝试画出蒙德里安风格的画作，而这一幅画的分数是最大矩形的面积减去最小矩形的面积，所得面积越小，分数越高。

同学们在画画的过程中为了得到相减后尽可能小的面积，需要最大的面积越小越好，最小的面积越大越好。这是美术，也是数学，需要同学们计算、思考、推理。

在课堂上，艺术老师Ms. Lindsey Holmes让大家仔细观察英国抽象画家布里奇特·莱利的作品。《纳塔拉贾》是一幅典型的对角线条纹绘画，画作表面被垂直和对角线分割开来，形成了多个离散的色彩区域。这种构图的主要难点在于如何创造一个统一、平衡的视觉感受区域，同时又能动态地组织各种色彩。

在艺术老师的指导下，同学们将构图简化为严谨的垂直条纹排列，尝试用选择一系列彩色纸，将它们按颜色顺序竖着铺在一起，使和谐的颜色不会相互接触，画作效果是垂直和对角线达到非常细致的平衡。

在上述活动完成之后，学生们以六个院舍为单位进行Kahoot趣味数学竞赛，发挥团队智慧破解数学难题，所有人在答题时都全神贯注。比赛成绩会实时显示在大屏幕上，现场气氛十分紧张及刺激！

获胜者都会获得相应House Point，他们都为了院舍荣誉努力！经过一番激战，今次数学竞赛获得佳绩的院舍为

Mr Jordan Cochrane, Head of Science, led the students through the tactics of chess, introducing the layout and moves of the six pieces: rook, knight, bishop, king, queen and pawns, and inviting the students to compare the differences between chess and Chinese chess, and to understand the logic behind the Chinese and Western approaches on the chessboard

After learning sufficient theoretical knowledge, Harrow students played Chess and Chinese Chess in groups and gained a deeper understanding of the logic of the board in real life. Impressed by the students' ability to listen and then their application of the skills，he will be looking to find a competition for some of these students.

Mr. Giuseppe Miolli kicked off the session with an intriguing illusion card game, followed by two distinct number prediction activities. He then delved into the underlying formulas that explained the accuracy of his predictions, encouraging the students to create their own games based on self-made formulas.

Subsequently, he guided the students through simple methods for solving three by three and five by five magic cube problems. To keep things exciting, he briefly introduced popular riddle games like the Monty Hall problem and the three prisoners' dilemma. The session left the students with a taste of the more fascinating aspects of the subject and a discovery of a new dimension.

In traditional Chinese culture, there are some gaming games that have been around for a long time and have endured, and “Bo Bing” （Fujian Dice Game） is one of them. Physics teacher Ms Clara Liu brought this game, which is protected as an intangible cultural heritage in Minnan region, Fujian Province, into her classroom. According to the rules, the order is followed by Champion Scholar, Runner-up, Third Place, Jinshi(Imperial exam graduates) , Recommendee and Scholar. The higher the level, the lower the probability of occurrence.

Harrow students can learn about the mystery of probability in mathematics in the process of "Bo Bing” game. Adding to probability learning in daily Maths class, the games can also deepen the students' understanding of probability.

The Dutch painter Mondrian is known for his Neo-Plasticism, which is simple and pure, using only simple lines, right angles and blocks of primary colours for his paintings. In the class, Maths teacher Mr. Bryn Jia led Harrow students to solve a Mondrian puzzle by attempting to draw a Mondrian-style painting which is scored by subtracting the area of the largest rectangle from the area of the smallest rectangle, with the smaller the resulting area, the higher the score.

In order to get the smallest possible area after subtraction, students need the largest area to be as small as possible and the smallest area to be as large as possible. This is art as well as maths and requires students to calculate, think and reason.

In class, art teacher Ms. Lindsey Holmes asked students to take a closer look at the work of British abstract painter Bridget Riley. 'Nataraja' is a typical diagonal striped painting, where the surface of the painting is divided by vertical and diagonal lines, creating multiple discrete areas of colour. The main difficulty with this composition is to create a unified and balanced area of visual perception, while at the same time dynamically organising the various colours.

Under the guidance of the art teacher, students simplified the composition into a strict vertical stripe arrangement by experimenting with selecting a range of coloured papers and laying them vertically in an order that the harmonious colours are not adjacent to each other, the effect of the painting is a very careful balance of vertical and diagonal lines.

After the above activities, the students took part in the Kahoot Maths Competition in six Houses, where they played as a team to solve the maths puzzles, and all of them paid full attention when answering the questions. The results of the competition were displayed on the screen in real time and the atmosphere was very tense and exciting!

The winners of the competition were awarded with House Points and they all worked hard for the honour of the Houses! After a fierce battle, the Houses which won the Maths Competition are as follows