Have You Got Maths Eyes?

October 16th - November 30th

Maths Week in collaboration between with TU Dublin and the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and Dublin West Education Centre are running a special Have you got Maths Eyes Poster competition.

Create a Maths Eyes style poster using a photograph taken in your local area and add in an accompanying tagline highlighting the mathematics that you have seen in the photo using your maths eyes.

Posters can be submitted in the schools category or in the project category.

Maths Week Scavenger Hunt (Year 11 & Transition Year Students)

Calling all Year 11 and Transition Year Classes. Friday 21 October 2022, 10.00am!

Join the Maths week team for a fun, collaborative and energetic scavenger hunt that will have you competing with other schools. The challenges are designed to accommodate all abilities and creativity is highly recommended. All you need is 1 mobile phone for the class and someone that is designated as the director. You will need to download the Goose Chase App to take part. Instructions will be emailed to you just before the event commences.

Over 76,000 registered for the Maths Week Olympiad!

Online, October 17- October 24

We have two sets of papers; for Northern Ireland and for the Republic. The Olympiad includes question papers for all classes primary and secondary. This is the only Olympiad of its kind (in the world) to cater for the foundation phase.

The papers consist of 20 questions and 5 bonus questions. Every learner that takes part will receive a certificate (either bronze, silver or gold included in the online folder) for achieving marks from 1-20 out of 20. Any marks higher than 20 will receive a platinum certificate.

Find out more on the Maths Week 2022 Olympiad.

To register your interest in this year’s Olympiad with papers suitable from Year 2 /Senior Infants to Year 11/3rd Year please complete This Form.

Target Boards (Primary)

Every Day Of Maths Week, Online

Target Boards are a great fun way for your class to practice arithmetic during Maths Week. Pupils won’t even realise they are working! There is a senior section for upper primary schools and a junior section for younger pupils.

Target Boards run every day of Maths Week, and a leaderboard to compete for! Its all about the fun of working together. There’s still time to register and play.

Mol Mata

Mol Mata, an Irish Language cross-border Maths initiative from The Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA)and An Comhairle Um Oideachas Gaeltacht and Gaelscolaíochta (COGG) with support from the PDST. The initiative was launched yesterday, to promote mathematics, problem solving and higher order thinking skills among primary school children on both sides of the border.

Mol Mata was developed to make the teaching and learning of Maths more interesting and interactive for primary school children in terms of developing their thinking skills and mathematical language abilities in an enjoyable way.

Cuthbert Sees Double with Sally Lunt (Audience: Sr -1st class (ROI); Y2-Y3 (NI)

10:10am - 11:10pm

This workshop focuses on doubling. Beginning with a purpose-written story followed by a question-and-answer session and then an arty maths activity to reinforce learning. This workshop will help children to see that doubling a number is the same as adding the number to itself.

Algebra, a balancing act: Strategies to help students to approach algebra effectively (Adult)

11:00am - 12:00pm

Join our free webinar for adult literacy and numeracy tutors to mark Maths Week 2022.

Title: Algebra, a balancing act: Strategies to help students to approach algebra effectively.

John Hooper Statistical Poster Competition 2023

The John Hooper Medal for Statistics is awarded to the winner of this national poster competition. The goal of the competition is to improve students’ abilities to describe their environment with the help of statistics and to use statistics as a tool for making sense of daily life.

'I Hate Maths' - Presented by Mike Askew (Primary, Pre- and in-Service Teachers and Academics)

St Patrick’s Campus, DCU 6pm - 7:30pm

There may still be tickets available at this ‘I Hate Maths’ workshop at DCU, Prof Mike Askew will introduce and discuss a set of maths strategy games that can
be used in the classroom to support mathematical thinking. The central part of the session is focused on playing the games,
and working through and discussing the mathematical thinking involved with the audience.

Comedy in Galway Thursday Night

Bright Club at the Mick Lally Theatre

8pm

If you are in or near Galway come to BRight Club for a special Maths Week comedy night.

Details on their website

Meet Maggie Gough, the forgotten Irish maths pioneer

A wonderful article on RTE’s website about Wexford woman Maggie Gough, the first Irish woman to obtain a Doctorate in Maths