About the UKMT (UK Maths Trust)
The UK Mathematics Trust was founded in 1996. Their charitable aim is to advance the education of young people in mathematics.
Each year, they work with hundreds of volunteers across the UK to organise competitions, promoting problem solving, team work and other mathematical enrichment activities.
From school challenges to international competitions
Their biggest and most well known competitions are the Junior, Intermediate and Senior Mathematical Challenges. The challenges have over 700 000 entries each year, and are the UK's most popular school competitions. They invite the highest-scoring students to take part in follow-on rounds such as the:
They invite high scorers in the Senior Mathematical Challenge to sit the British Mathematical Olympiad Round 1, which feeds in to the training and selection of the team to represent the UK at the prestigious International Mathematical Olympiad, the annual Olympic games of mathematics, and other international competitions. The Mathematical Olympiad for Girls is aimed at girls and young women across the UK and consists of five challenging problems.
Promoting teamwork and communication skills
The UKMT Team and Senior Team Maths Challenges encourage students to work collaboratively on a range of intriguing mathematical problems.
Each year, dozens of Regional Finals of these competitions take place across the UK and culminate in a National Final attended by around 90 high-scoring teams.
Encouraging a love of problem solving
The UKMT’s enrichment activities aim to open young people's minds to the breadth and depth of mathematics.
Each year, hundreds of students participate in their Summer Schools. These week-long residential events mix mathematical and social activities and welcome young people into our mathematical community.
Mathematical Circles take place around the UK and offer students the opportunity to come together and do mathematics with other young people from their area.
The Mentoring Scheme puts enthusiastic young mathematicians in touch with volunteer mentor who help them through monthly sets of challenging mathematical problems. Many senior schools use mentoring problems with their most able students.
Maths Challenges Results
UK Maths Trust - Junior, Intermediate & Senior Maths Challenges
February 2024 - Intermediate Maths Challenge - Pink Kangaroo (gold) 1 x student (year 11). 1 x Bronze and Best in School, Year 6 student. .
October 2023 - Senior Maths Challenge 1 x (high sliver) year 11 student.
April 2023 - Junior Maths Challenge 1 x silver (year 7), 2 x bronze (year 5 & year 6).
February 2023 - Intermediate Maths Challenge - Pink Kangaroo (gold) 1 x student (year 10). 1 x Bronze Year 5 student.
February 2022 - Intermediate Maths Challenge 1 x Olympiad bonus round (gold) student (Year 9 & 10 thresholds). Score 114. Olympiad Score Year 9 101+. 1 x Bronze and Best in School, Year 6 student. UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge.
June 2021 - 1 x UKMT Junior Maths Olympiad (bronze - 44 marks out of 70) student. Approx 110-140 out of 300,000 who sat the original Junior Maths Challenge in April. Bronze medal 37+, Silver medal 47+, Gold medal 57+
April 2021 - 2 x Olympiad bonus round (gold) students. UKMT Junior Maths Challenge. Olympiad bonus round (top 0.2%-0.5%). Scores of 99 and 105. Olympiad score of 98+
June 2020 - 1 x Gold (top 2,000 of 300,000) 112/135. UKMT Junior Maths Challenge. Due to COVID-19, there was no follow on bonus round. In prior years, 112/135 would have resulted in participation of the Olympiad bonus round (top 0.2%-0.5%).
February 2020 - 1 x Bronze UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge (year 9). The IMC is a maths challenge for year 11 pupils. (top 80,000 of 200,000).
April 2019 - 2 x Kangaroo/Gold (top 8,000 of 300,000) UKMT Junior Maths Challenge (both year 6). The JMC is a maths challenge for year 8 pupils. 1 x Kangaroo - Merit 112/135
June 2019 - 1 x JMC Kangaroo bonus round - merit 112/135. The JMC is a maths challenge for year 8 pupils. Year 6 student.
April 2018 - one Gold (top 20,000 of 300,000) UKMT Junior Maths Challenge (year 5).