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Categories
The 2021 categories were in the home, in the wild, and climate change
Winning entries made deep connections between the subject(s) of their photo and the maths inside them and explained this in their commentary
in the home
Can you find the maths hiding in your own home? Maybe when cooking up a treat? Or in the electronics you use? Perhaps in the melodies you hear? What about the fractal glory of Romanesco broccoli?
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!
climate change
Climate change is a brand new category launched for 2021.
Have you seen our world changing? Perhaps changes in the weather? What is the highest temperature recorded in your area this year? What is the lowest? Are these similar to those recorded in the year of your birth? When is the next solar or lunar eclipse going to take place? How do we know? How can the level of the tides be predicted? What changes are needed if sea levels rise? Have you thought about the energy and transport we use? How is the electricity used in your home generated? How was this electricity generated 10 years ago, or even 50? What fuel do the cars on your street use? How far do the foods on supermarket shelves travel to get there? What impact do we have on our surroundings? What changes can we make?
Category Winners
The winners in each category received a £50 Amazon voucher & certificate
- in the home winner — £50 Amazon voucher & certificate
- James Corrie (S6) with The Exact Moment Before I Spilled Tea Everywhere
- in the wild winner — £50 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Jude North (P1) with A Different Perspective
- climate change winner — £50 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Evie Wood (P5) with Plenty More Fish in the Sea?
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 adults, parents, teachers, photographers, all mathematical artists (or artistic mathematicians!) 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
- Frankie Rooney (P1) with Ants and Maths
- First Level winner — £20 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Rai Jhund (P4) with Cake Math
- Second Level winner — £20 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Finlay Addison (P6) with Don’t Count your Fish Before your Catch!
- Third/Fourth Level winner — £20 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Georgina Murray (S1) with Time, Tests and Numbers
- Senior Phase winner — £20 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Charlie Webster (S5) with Unified Bubble
- Another Level winner — £20 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Anna Elliott-Gibson (NA) with Chase Rainbows
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
- Elizabeth Park (P1) with Save Our Seas!
- Kieran (P1) with Measuring Wall
- First Level runners-up (x 2) — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Elsie Raftery (P3) with One Small Step for Climate Change
- Ewan Dallas (P2) with Hexagonal Bubbles
- Second Level runners-up (x 2) — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Josh Jardine Nel (P5) with Maths in Skateboarding
- Nihal Jhund (P5) with Lego
- Third/Fourth Level runners-up (x 2) — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Elza Lee (S2) with Mirrored Gold
- Neave Boland (S3) with It’s Raining
- Senior Phase runners-up (x 2) — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Leon Ferguson (S4) with The Bricks of the VA Dundee
- Zoë Govan (S6) with Rigged Future
- Another Level runners-up (x 2) — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Mr Wilson with Light Bending
- Stella Cunningham with Maths In Making Cup of Tea and or Coffee
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
- Sgoil Stafainn – GM P1–P3 with How Our Garden Grows
Additionally, the best commentary in each level each received a £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Early Years best commentary — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Sgoil Araich Stafainn with Take a Look Inside a Book
- First Level best commentary — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Edmund Warrilow Silcock (P2) with Maths Fun and Games
- Second Level best commentary — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Lillyanna Robb (P5) with Cow-nt On Us
- Third/Fourth Level best commentary — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Rachel Rose (S3) with Rubik’s Cube
- Senior Phase best commentary — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Dillon Lindsay, Chloe Leek, Michael Leckie, Nathan Ferguson, Jack Kyle (S6) with Maths in a Card Game
- Another Level best commentary — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Mr John Kennedy with Mr K’s Maths Challenge from S4
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
- Early Years — pre-school children & P1 pupils
- Balivanich School Nursery (P0) with Skip Counting Using Seaweed
- Cowie Nursery (P0) with The House
- Daisy McGowan (P1) with Clean Up Your Act
- Elana McLellan-Baker (P1) with Deep Blue
- Flossie Chandler (P0) with Zero Food Miles
- Grayson Donnelly (P1) with Pattern Making
- Holly Mackay (P1) with Bath Time
- Ruth Ndiuini (P0) with Light vs Heavy
- First Level — P2–P4
- Benjamin Warren (P4) with Sunshine on Raindrops
- Charlie Macphee (P2) with Bullseye
- Dario Moyes-Feeney (P2) with Money Counts
- Freya Quail (P4) with Na Raithean agus An Uair - Seasons and Time
- Harris Walker (P2) with Countdown to Cousin
- James McLean (P4) with Uachdar- reòite Biorach - Pointy Ice-cream!
- Leo Methven (P4) with ‘Tree’antan
- Maria Lawson (P3) with Dart Board
- Noah Niven (P3) with Ripples
- Rai Jhund (P4) with What the Ladybug Heard
- Rosie Chandler (P2) with Carbon Footprint
- Tessa & Sophia (P2) with Looking After the Planet
- Vinnie Wood (P3) with Generating Power
- Vivaan Mundada (P2) with Maths Inside Home
- Yoma Atimati (P3) with Fitness and Maths
- Second Level — P5–P7
- Connor Stevenson (P7) with Wimpy Words
- Daisy Adam (P7) with A lot of Pages
- Daniel (P5) with Wallpaper Patterns
- Dexter Parsons (P5) with Tatty Maths
- Iona Kirkpatrick (P6) with TIMBER!
- Kieran Gorry (P7) with Mental Workout
- Myiah Quinn and Mila Wakefield (P5) with Bees
- Third/Fourth Level — S1–S3
- Alana Torley (S2) with Computing Science
- Arwen Burns (S3) with Tracking Past Climates
- Cameron Chapman (S3) with Numbers and Squares
- Charlie Bauld (S1) with Measuring the Speed of a River
- Falaq Sadiq (S1) with Maths in Smartphone
- Georgina Murray (S1) with Road or River?
- Jenna Neil (S1) with The Destroyer
- Libby-Rose Boyle (S1) with Maths in the Park
- Lucas Temporal (S1) with Fretboard
- Ralph Kelly (S3) with Area and Perimeter in my Garden
- Sophie Malley (S1) with River Symmetry
- Talvin Jhund (S1) with Mathcraft
- Thalia (S3) with Small Man Crushed By Enormous Foot
- Tim Rose (S1) with The Equation of Sound
- Senior Phase — S4–S6
- Aleksandra Zylinska (S4) with Daily Cycling
- Chloe Leek (S6) with A Wrapper Made from Potatoes, Really?
- Jake (S6) with Locks and a Duck
- Kirsty Ogilvy (S4) with Early Risers
- Lachlan Duncan-Brooke (S6) with Deconstruction Of A Drink
- Robbie Higham-Grams (S5) with Dice Scale
- Sophia Maudsley (S6) with Fragmented Reflection
- Toby Chan (S5) with Last Cell
- Zanita Yuen (S6) with The Mathematician’s Nightmare
- Another Level — for adults, parents, teachers, photographers, all mathematical artists (or artistic mathematicians!) out-of-school
- Andrew Kerr with Everybody Wins
- Anna Elliott-Gibson with Rain it in
- Donna Paterson with The Power of Water
- Katherine with Fruit Bowl
- Kimberly Robinson with The Scottish Snow
- Norma McDowall with Who Ate All the Chocolates?
Schools Prizes
- Highly Commended School for outstanding commitment & quality of entries — £100 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Commended School for outstanding commitment — certificate