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The Mathematical Challenges aim to stimulate mathematical problem solving.
The Senior Challenge is aimed at students in Year 13 or below (England and Wales), S6 or below (Scotland) and Year 14 or below (Northern Ireland).
The competition is aimed at schools and colleges based in the UK. All entries must be made by recognised institutions, not individual students or their parents.
It's easy to take part:
Download the current entry form (PDF)
Papers are posted to arrive roughly two weeks before the challenge date. If your school has not received your papers a week before the Challenge date, please contact us.
We do not make a profit from Mathematical Challenge entry fees. All the money we raise is spent on advancing the education of young people in mathematics by funding the Team Maths Challenges, Mathematical Circles, National Mathematics Summer Schools, Mentoring Schemes, Olympiad Training Camps and other work of the UKMT.
To recognise the highest performers in the Challenge we award the top-scoring 60% of participants bronze, silver and gold certificates in the ratio 3:2:1.
In addition we invite around 1,000 of the very highest performers to take part in the British Mathematical Olympiad Round 1 and around 6,000 to take part in the Senior Kangaroo.
We hope that taking part in the Mathematical Challenges is a stimulating and rewarding experience for all students. Teachers can use past Mathematical Challenges as a source of high-quality problems to encourage their students to think mathematically.
