On Thursday, 13th February, a group of four Key Stage 3 students set out to test our problem-solving skills at the UKMT’s Team Maths Challenge, held at Queen Anne’s School. Competing against some of the brightest minds from across our region, our team tackled a series of challenging mathematical problems that tested not only our numerical abilities but also our teamwork and strategic thinking skills.

The challenge consisted of several rounds, each designed to push our mathematical limits in different ways. These included a group round, which was essentially a set of complex problems that were given out to the group, a crossnumber round, which was a mathematical crossword puzzle, where we had to work in pairs to fill in different parts of the crossnumber, the shuttle round, a fast-paced relay of problems, where one pair’s solution fed into the next problem, and finally, the relay round, a test of both speed and accuracy as we passed problems around in pairs.