On Thursday 6th February, 60 of our S3 and S4 pupils competed in the UK Intermediate Maths Challenge. The UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge is an hour long, intriguing multiple choice question paper, which is designed to stimulate interest in maths in large numbers of pupils.

The top 40% of students nationally receive a gold, silver or bronze certificate in the ratio 1:2:3 and each school receives a Best in School certificate.

Around 500 of the highest scorers in each school year are invited to take part in the Intermediate Mathematical Olympiad papers: Cayley, Hamilton and Maclaurin for S3 and S4. More information can be found via the web address listed below.
Results from the Challenge will be back within a few weeks so look out for a photograph of many happy pupils with their certificates. I’ll keep you posted!
Are you smarter than an S3 or S4!? If you fancy trying last year’s challenge you can find it here (complete with solutions!): HERE

Mr Stuart Abbott, Maths teacher, Dunoon Grammar School