Maths Photo Competition
Maths inside is a photo competition open to everyone in Scotland. - Join us on a journey of discovery for Maths Week Scotland 2025 with categories launching in Spring 2025! Can you see the maths inside? 📸
Maths is part of our daily life, have you ever thought about it? 🤔 The house, exercise route, daily dog walks and the weekly shop turned into a playground… your chance to get creative and make mathematical connections!
Can you see the maths inside? Send us a photo with the maths inside sticker on it to enter the competition into one of our categories. Your photo should be accompanied by a title and commentary explaining the maths inside, and mind to add the maths inside sticker. Participation can be individual or in small groups. Open to all ages. 🎁 Take a look at our prizes!
If you are under 16, you will need permission and help from your parents/carers/teachers to enter. It is very easy, you just need to take a photo and follow the submission instructions with the help of an adult. Back by popular request, those out-of-school can continue to submit their entries to Another Level. Get in touch if you have any questions or read below to learn more → details on how to enter the competition
Looking for inspiration? Discover our suite of resources for all competition entry levels and our past winners in our gallery of winners
maths inside: see different, make connections, celebrate! 🎈
News
Watch again the 2024 Edition prize ceremony online by clicking here — held online live on Saturday 16th November and available to watch again for 180 days (May 2025)
Maths inside is a photo competition open to everyone living in Scotland hosted by the University of Glasgow. A massive thank you to all who joined us on a journey of discovery in the wild, and exploring the ‘why’ of shapes for Maths Week Scotland 2024! Can you see the maths inside?
Join us to celebrate on social media throughout the remainder of 2024, 👉 schedule of celebrations
Thank you to all the visitors at our previous exhibitions at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh; Kibble Palace, Botanical Gardens, Glasgow Science Festival; Orkney Science Festival, Glasgow Doors Open Festival & Explorathon. Keep an eye out here for updates on exhibitions in 2025 and beyond!
🚨Explore our winners gallery 📸🖼 👉mathsinside.com/discover/gallery👈 Experience the beauty of maths with ~190 winners & ~320 commended entries & schools—8 past editions of inspiration!🏆🏅🎉
🚨Attention Teachers — image bank activities targeted at Early Years to Fourth Level (Pre-school–S3) and Senior Phase (S4–S6), 10 new example journeys 🎹🌳🎨⚽⛺🏖👟☕🌱🚉 complemented by interdisciplinary learning activities with CfE experiences and outcomes (Es+Os) 👉mathsinside.com/discover/#resources-activities👈
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Categories
Our 2024 categories, in the wild and the 'why' of shapes are below — click on the images for more details and inspirational examples
2025 categories will be launched in Spring 2025!
If you have found examples of maths inside in more than one category, you can submit more than one photo and commentary but remember that entries are limited to a maximum of two photos per entrant, one under each category
Enter the competition
Check out our categories, search for the maths inside, take your winning photo, and add your commentary, title and maths inside sticker
See our guides for adding stickers
Winning entries make deep connections between the subject(s) of their photo and the maths inside them and explain this in their commentary Looking for inspiration?
Competition open from Monday 1st September with last submission of new entries at 11:59pm on Monday 6th October 2025
We welcome you to our Prize Ceremony — details in the News section
Prizes & Winners
Looking for inspiration? Discover our resources & activities for all competition entry levels and take a look too at our past winners in our gallery
Category Winners
The winners in each 2024 category received a £50 Amazon voucher & certificate — 2025 categories will be launched in Spring 2025!
- oot an’ aboot winner — £50 Amazon voucher & certificate
- the ‘why’ of shapes winner — £50 Amazon voucher & certificate
Level Winners
The winners in each level will receive a £20 Amazon voucher & certificate. Learn more about the levels below
- Early Years winner — £20 Amazon voucher & certificate
- First Level winner — £20 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Second Level winner — £20 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Third/Fourth Level winner — £20 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Senior Phase winner — £20 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Another Level winner — £20 Amazon voucher & certificate
Level Runners-up
The two runners-up in each level will receive a £10 Amazon voucher & certificate. Learn more about the levels below
- Early Years runners-up (x 2) — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
- First Level runners-up (x 2) — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Second Level runners-up (x 2) — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Third/Fourth Level runners-up (x 2) — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Senior Phase runners-up (x 2) — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Another Level runners-up (x 2) — £10 Amazon voucher & certificate
Commended Entries
Commended Entries will receive a certificate
Schools Prizes
- Most Engaged School — £100 Amazon voucher & certificate
- Commended Schools will receive certificates
Levels
Your submission will be 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 (teachers, parents, anyone not at school!)
Learn more about adding stickers and click here to submit your photo!
In the event of a group entry winning a prize, the prize will be split between the entrants
Looking for inspiration? A suite of resources for all competition entry levels are available. Take a look too at our past winners