Challenges

Test your numeracy, logic and creativity skills with the Maths Week Scotland challenges.

Maths Tales Contest 2025

This exciting story-writing competition invites young authors in classes P2 - P7 to create a tale incorporating some maths elements.

Finn's Wild Maths Adventure Contest

This creative competition invites children in P1 and ELC settings to explore and record wild maths around them.

Fibonacci Poetry Contest

For our poetry contest, we are inviting young people of secondary school age, as well as independent adults, to write their own poem based on the Fibonacci Sequence.

Finn Finity and the Wild Maths Zoo Adventure

Finn Finity and the Wild Maths Zoo Adventure is an interactive story that you can read together with your class or as a family, incorporating maths puzzles and activities to solve.

Maths Wi Nae Borders

Inspired by the annual Mathématiques sans Frontières contest, this mini-competition is for any class to complete together.

Graph Craft

An exciting infographic competition in which students can design and submit an infographic that tells a story about an issue that is important to them.

SuperQuesters

Use your creative thinking and maths skills to design a medal. For children children aged 4 to 12 years.

MWS Daily Challenge

Each morning during Maths Week Scotland, a puzzle set by the Scottish Mathematical Council is shared on BBC Bitesize.

Sumdog

Celebrate maths and bring children together across Scotland with a fun online maths contest from Sumdog.

Scotland Rocks

A country-wide times tables competition for schools - take the challenge to see if your class can rock their way to the top!

Maths Inside

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Maths Inside will unfortunately not be running in 2025.