Acle, Aylsham, Broadland, Cromer, Flegg, North Walsham, Sheringham, Stalham and Thorpe House
have all taken part down the years.

Schools are invited to bring two teams of four students of any age group
(sometimes the younger teams have shown up their elders!)

There are two rounds:

Round One, where teams are given six longish tasks to work on for an hour.
The work needs to be sensibly divided up between the team members.
Each task might carry twenty marks.

Round Two, where the teams are given six quick-fire questions to answer, for ten marks each.
Each question should be answered in at most five minutes.

There is a specially-commissioned shield, handsomely decorated with the solution to the Squaring-the-square problem,
solved in the Seventies by student mathematicians at university together.
We hope that the Challenge will inspire our own young maths stars to similar heights.

There is also a cheque for the winning school.

We have had great fun with our Challenge, and we hope that that is true for our contestants as well.

Some pictures from the Autumn 2014 Challenge are here.

If you would like to see a sample of what we have included in previous years,
then please click on the links below.

Round One tasks have included:

1. Squares and Triangles
2. Train of Thought
3. Lotsa Dots
4. Cube Cutting
1. Right Angles
2. Rabbits in the Hutches
3. Four Points
4. Prime Numbers
5. Finding an area
6. Odd, Odd, Odd

3. The Closed Loop
5. Signs and Brackets
1. Counting Triangles
2. Mystery Matrix
3. Pentomino Challenge
4. Rabbits in the Pen
5. Counting Rectangles
6. Three Squares