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Thank You for Another Amazing Maths Week!

Over 480,000 pupils have taken part in Maths Week 2023.

See link to Certificates below

• 2,727 Teachers from 2,154 schools registered for Maths Week

• Over 104,016 pupils from 838 schools took part in the Maths Week Olympiad.

• Over 20,000 students participated in our Maths Week Mini and Mega quizzes.

• Over 4000 students participating in the Maths Week Quiz in Irish with CoGG.

• 683 classes played Targetboards

• and more than 160 secondary school classes had registered for the Maths Week TV Secondary School Webinars.

• Over 20,000 participated in Maths in the City Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Dundalk, at the Munster Maths and Science Fair and engaged with Puzzles in the Park

• .Over 147,000 people views of the Maths Week puzzles in the Journal.ie

We trended on X (Twitter) every day and climbed to #1 trending on twitter from 13th-14th October.

Up and down the island schools did amazing things and posted them on social media. If you are posting your maths activities or news on social media be sure to include @mathsweek so we can repost.

Do visit our website for more maths activities throughout the year.

Please complete our survey below to help us make Maths Week better for you.

This success is because of your efforts and dedication, please accept our thanks and appreciation. Thanks also to our sponsors and all our partners across the island.

Eoin Gill

Maths Week Ireland Coordinator

Maths Week Teacher Prizes

Draw for teachers completing the pre-Maths Week survey. Congratulations to:

Set of Izak 9 Cubes:

S. O'Herlihy, RUTLAND NATIONAL SCHOOL, Dublin    

Samsung Tablets:

H Gormley, CANAL WAY EDUCATE TOGETHER NATIONAL SCHOOL, Dublin

S Cormican, PORTUMNA COMMUNITY SCHOOL, Galway

H. Dickson, MARALIN VILLAGE PRIMARY SCHOOL, Armagh

T. Dillon, SHANNON AIRPORT 1 N S, Clare  

S. Keehan, THE CHILDRENS ARK, Limerick

2,298 Teachers filled in our pre-survey.

Please help us with our short post-event survey.

Maths Week Certificates 2023

Some Highlights

What’s On

Maths week will be back next year from 12th - 20th October !
Stay tuned to our website and social media for updates!

New puzzles on our website!

Street Smarts: Start your journey into Maths Art with our step-by-step designs.

Have a try on paper, blank or squared sheet.

Pickuto: Try your skills at this picture memory game

Matchstick Puzzle: Improve memory, concentration, critical thinking and overall cognitive function by solving puzzles like the matchstick puzzles.

Maths4All Learning Communities

Gender Gap in Maths

Lunchtime Webinar: Society of Actuaries in Ireland

Understanding the gender gap at the highest performance level in Leaving Certificate Higher Level Mathematics

Wednesday 29 November 2023

12:15 – 1:30 pm

Ongoing:

Maths Week Have You Got Maths Eyes competition 2023 open until 30 November

We are very excited to announce the new Maths Eyes website is now live at https://haveyougotmathseyes.com/ . We hope you find the new website helps in the excellent work that we know is being done all across the island of Ireland and beyond to open people’s Maths Eyes!

See details of the Maths Week Maths Eyes Competition here

Among the new website features are poster resources, case studies, competitions, digital badges

Gender Gap in Maths

A big congratulations to all 683 classes that took part in Targetboards. Amazing to see the amount of work posted every day by young people having fun while developing an intuition about numbers and operators. Congratulations to the schools who topped the leaderboards in the end. Take a bow!

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