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• category winners
• winners & runners-up
• commended entries

• IMA best commentaries

• view entries per level: Early Years, First Level, Second Level, Third/Fourth Level, Senior Phase, Another Level.

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Categories

The 2019 categories were in my town, in the wild, and complete the pattern

Winning entries made deep connections between the subject(s) of their photo and the maths inside them and explained this in their commentary

in my town

Perhaps you’ve looked down and seen a glorious pattern tiling the floor of a local building, wondered at the maths behind a nearby bridge, or puzzled at the not-quite-parabola shape made by a chain hanging between fence posts?

Submissions to this category were taken in and around town, or celebrated the beauty of man-made objects!

in the wild

Have you seen some maths in the wild? Perhaps hiding in the space-saving honeycomb of bees, the symmetry of a starfish, or the fractal glory of Romanesco broccoli?

This category captured the wild side of maths in nature!

complete the pattern

A new category for 2019, different from in the wild and in my town

Here two photos were presented and entrants were asked to complete the pattern with a photo and commentary of their own!

With a choice between ‘set 1’ and ‘set 2’. Their photo replaces the jigsaw puzzle with a question mark on the right-hand side

An example set along with possible photos and commentaries that complete the pattern is available here

In 2019, entrants were invited to complete the pattern for set 1 — hands - balloons and set 2 — cards - barcode see what connections they made by clicking the links

set 1

set 2

Entrants in this category submitted a single photo to complete the pattern of ‘set 1’ or ‘set 2’. They also submitted a commentary explaining why their photo completes this set. There was no single right answer, and the submissions were very creative!

Winning entries in this category made clear through their commentary the pattern that links all three photos

All the 2019 complete the pattern winners for set 1 — hands - balloons and set 2 — cards - barcode can be viewed on Twitter by clicking the these links

Category Winners

The winners in each category received a £50 Amazon voucher & certificate

• in my town winner — £50 Amazon voucher & certificate
  • Demi Kelly (S6) with Maths inside Dance
• in the wild winner — £50 Amazon voucher & certificate
  • Erin Day (P5) with Life Cycle of a Tomato
• complete the pattern winner — £50 Amazon voucher & certificate
  • Rachel Heatherill (S6) with Combination Lock
    

Levels

Submissions were considered in the below levels

• Early Years — pre-school children & P1 pupils
• First Level — P2–P4
• Second Level — P5–P7
• Third/Fourth Level — S1–S3
• Senior Phase — S4–S6
• Another Level — for those out-of-school
  

Level Winners

The winners in each level received a £20 Amazon voucher & certificate. Learn more about the levels above

• Early Years winner — £20 Amazon voucher & certificate
  • Logan Robertson (P1) with Puddle Patterns
• First Level winner — £20 Amazon voucher & certificate
  • Benjamin Warren (P2) with Four Oranges
• Second Level winner — £20 Amazon voucher & certificate
  • Charlie Barclay (P7) with The Maths Tunnel
• Third/Fourth Level winner — £20 Amazon voucher & certificate
  • Ellie and Erin Lewis (S2) with Mathematical Daisy
• Senior Phase winner — £20 Amazon voucher & certificate
  • Zoe Dawson (S6) with Discovery
• Another Level winner — £20 Amazon voucher & certificate
  • Margaret Clark with Farmer Pascal
    

Level Runners-up

Runners-up in each level received a £10 Amazon voucher & certificate. Learn more about the levels above

• Early Years runner-up (x 2) — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
  • Auchterellon PS (P1) with Cake cubes
• First Level runners-up (x 2) — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
  • Bella Davies (P4) with My 47 apple tree!
  • Killermont Primary School P3B with Brick Wall
• Second Level runners-up (x 2) — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
  • Daniel MacAlpine (P5) with Dandelion clock
  • Jacob McIloney, Enzo Corrigan, Max Brocklehurst, Freddie Brocklehurst (P6) with Maths inside me
• Third/Fourth Level runners-up (x 2) — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
  • Raine Wong (S1) with Maths Inside a Storage Box
  • Faye Sabe (S2) with How Many bottles??
• Senior Phase runners-up (x 2) — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
  • Sean John Blair (S4) with Football Maths
  • Molly Peel(S6) with Stairway to Samos

IMA Prize for Best Commentary

With the generous support of the Scottish Branch of the Institute of Mathematics & its Applications (IMA), the photo with the best overall commentary received a £50 Amazon voucher & certificate

• best overall commentary — £50 Amazon voucher & certificate
  • Isabella Wilson (P1) with ID Numbers
    

Additionally, the best commentary in each level each received a £10 Amazon voucher & certificate

• Early Years best commentary — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
  • Harris Warren (Pre) with Look Mummy, a circle!
• First Level best commentary — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
  • Jessica McIntosh Bolton (P4) with Interesting Game of Uno
• Second Level best commentary — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
  • Dearbhla Newman (P6) with Complex Coding
• Third/Fourth Level best commentary — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
  • Abel Cotnoir (S2) with Frilly Fractal
• Senior Phase best commentary — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
  • Holly Robertson (S6) with Zeros & Ones
• Another Level best commentary — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
  • Martin Bleck with Theos Tone in Halftone

The winners of IMA best commentary showed in their commentaries connections between different areas of Mathematics, or explained well new insights into our daily lives, new ways of considering familiar things, or communicated well and in appropriate detail the Mathematics behind their photo

All entries were automatically considered for these prizes

Commended Entries

Commended Entries each received a certificate

• Isabella Wilson (P1) with Symmetry
• Caleb Skinner (P2) with A Sunny Symmetry
• Adwita Choudhury (P4) with Colourful Maths in the Sky
• Amber Mackay (P3) with Mul-tile-plication
• Dexter Edmundson (P4) with How Many Bricks?
• Nathan (P2) with Triangle tower
• Lee McCaffrey (P6) with A Walk with a Calculated View
• Aiden Munro (P7) with Blackberry Crumble
• Emma J (P6) with Dumfries House
• Andrew, Rayan and Oliver (P7) with Ways to Scan
• Matthew Crawford (P5) with Money money money
• Harmoni Edwards (P7) with Rainbow
• Wilfie Porteous, Nathan Grubb, Ciaran McWee and Ryan Wilson (P7) with Coin Collision
• Drew Brown (P7) with V&A Dundee
• Cameron Dale (P7) with Picture Pixels
• Elias Cathcart Froden (P7) with Money
• Jasmine Pears & Leah Gardner (S2) with Maths Inside, The bottles :)
• Olivia Mcluskey, Lara McPhee (S2) with Clydeview
• Abel Cotnoir (S2) with Bike Rack Tunnel
• Robyn Bain (S4) with Geometric Reflection
• Declan Brown (S4) with One Square and Lots of Triangles Makes…
• Jessica Sweeney (S6) with Perception in Maths
• Katie Allison (S4) with Zebras in the Wild
• Abbie O’Dell (S6) with Spiral
• Jessica Sweeney (S6) with Sturdy

Commended Schools

For outstanding commitment to maths inside

• Buchanan High School