Maths clubs and competitions · Maths CAS idea
Plan a school maths week or Pi Day
CreativityServiceProject-ready
Lead a team that plans a week of maths events across the school: lunchtime challenges, a quiz, displays and an assembly.
Where the maths comes in
Choosing accessible but interesting maths for a whole-school audience and presenting it clearly.
Which CAS strand it fits
- Creativity: The arts, and other experiences that involve creative thinking.
- Service: Unpaid, voluntary work with others that also has a learning benefit for you.
Your CAS coordinator decides how an experience counts at your school. Strand summaries are provisional (our words, being checked).
How to run it
- Pitch the week to the maths department with a draft programme.
- Split the team into events, publicity and displays.
- Run the week, keeping a daily log of what happened.
- Count participation and gather comments to judge its impact.
This can grow into a CAS project if your CAS coordinator agrees: see planning a maths CAS project.
How to evidence it
- Programme and publicity you made
- Photos of displays (no students' faces without permission)
- Participation counts and comments
Date everything and keep it in your school's CAS portfolio as you go. More on what counts as evidence.
Reflection prompts
Questions to think about, not answers to copy. Write your reflections in your own words, in whatever form your school accepts.
- How did you persuade staff to give time to the week?
- Which event reached people who do not usually like maths?
- What would you cut next time, and why?
Learning outcomes this often gives a chance to show
- Initiative and planning. What did you plan, and what did you have to change once you started? Who did you need to ask for permission or help, and how did you go about it?
- Collaboration. What did someone else bring that you could not have done alone? Describe a disagreement or a mix-up in the team. How was it resolved?
- Strengths and growth. Which part of this did you find easiest, and why do you think that is? What would someone who watched you say you need to work on?
Whether you meet an outcome depends on what you actually do and reflect on, not on the idea. Outcome labels are our short summaries, being checked.
Safety and ethics
- Follow your school's photography policy and get permission before posting any image of students.
Agree every plan with your CAS coordinator first. Safety and ethics for maths CAS.
Problems and strategies for a club: competition maths.