Maths Eyes 2025

Our Maths Eyes competition was back and bigger than ever this year with nearly double the amount of questions posed. We had students spotting shapes all around them, doing lots of counting, making patterns and much more! It was also wonderful to see students pose questions connected to what they are learning about in school.

Our students then looked at all the problems and did their best at solving them with even Fifth and Sixth Class finding our younger students examples puzzling, showing just what clever thinking was happening!

Please watch and enjoy solving them at home and well done to everyone who took part!

Maths Stations

Our student council planned and ran our maths stations for maths week 2025. They thought about what students would enjoy and be engaged in and ran stations for Junior Infants – Fourth Class. All classes loved taking part, with our bingo machine being a big hit along with our shape and pattern sections.

Six / Seven Quiz

Instead of stations Fifth and Sixth Classes took part in the 6/7 Maths quiz where all the questions bar four had 67 as an answer. Groups had to determine the pattern and then find the ‘odd questions out’ to win prizes. All the students loved the opportunity to say 6/7 as much as possible, much to Ms McDermott’s dismay.

Maths Trails

Students were challenged with completing maths trails during the week. Fifth and Sixth completed an orienteering challenge which brought them all around the school while our younger classes completed maths trails where they had to find different examples of maths around our campus. Senior Infants enjoyed completing a trail, using the iPads to take pictures of all the different elements of Maths they found.

Estimation Station

Students were invited to use their estimation skills to guess the weight of our pumpkins and how many sweets were in the jar. This year we used common kitchen ingredients (500g of sugar, 1kg of sugar and 2kg of flour) to help us more accurately estimate the weights of our pumpkins. Students used the ingredients to make very accurate guesses and the competition was very tight! Congratulations to Cathal and Jane for guessing the weight of our pumpkins, and to Lily and Sophie for correctly guessing how many sweets was in the jar.