Celebrating Kinsale Community School's Maths Week 2025

Students and Staff across Kinsale Community School came together to celebrate Maths Week 2025. This annual event shone a spotlight on the world of numbers, equations, and problem-solving. It was a week dedicated not only to learning mathematics but to living it — through creativity, collaboration, and practical application across all year groups. 

Maths Week focuses on the essential role mathematics plays in our daily lives. In an increasingly complex and data-driven world, mathematical literacy is a fundamental life skill. This special week encourages students to view mathematics beyond the classroom — as a powerful tool for decision-making, critical thinking, and innovation. Throughout the week, students and teachers embraced a variety of puzzles, challenges, and hands-on learning activities that showcased the many ways mathematics influences the world around us. 

Highlights of Maths Week 2025 

  • Financial Literacy in Business: In Business classes, students explored the Financial Lifecycle and analysed key elements of Budget 2025, linking mathematical concepts with real-world financial planning. This activity helped students understand how numbers underpin sound economic decisions. 

  • Maggie Gough Maths Competition: Transition Year students represented the school in the Maggie Gough Competition 2025, an engaging online quiz designed to challenge and develop their problem-solving and numeracy skills. 

  • Linking Maths and Physical Education: In LCPE classes, students demonstrated how mathematics crosses subject boundaries by calculating their weekly training loads, highlighting the practical application of Maths in enhancing athletic performance. 

  • Daily Riddles and Critical Thinking: Each day, Mr. Sweeney posed mathematical riddles to all year groups, sparking friendly debate, encouraging logical reasoning, and fostering curiosity across the school community. 

  • First Year Maths Treasure Hunt: The G-Corridor was transformed into a lively Maths Treasure Hunt, where first year students solved 24 mathematical clues posted around the area. Working in pairs, they combined fun with problem-solving, teamwork, and strategic thinking. 

  • Jelly Jar Estimation Challenge: The Jelly Jar Challenge invited students to estimate the number of jellies in a jar, using the volume of a cylinder to make informed, mathematical guesses — proving that maths can be both practical and enjoyable. 

  • Maths in Music: Students investigated the mathematical patterns behind rhythm, beats, and musical structure, discovering how numbers influence harmony and composition. 

  • Decoding Our Lives: Lessons focused on how mathematics underpins communication, technology, and everyday decision-making, with topics ranging from encryption to navigation. 

  • Poster Competitions: Students across all year groups created imaginative and visually striking numeracy posters, expressing mathematical concepts creatively through art. 

Maths Week 2025 was a resounding success thanks to the enthusiasm, commitment, and collaboration of students, teachers, and the wider school community. Students discovered how Maths shapes business, sport, music, technology, problem-solving, and everyday decision-making. Thank you to everyone who contributed to making this celebration so memorable. Here’s to continuing to explore, question, and celebrate the power of mathematics — today and into the future. 

Gemma Cooper