Student tasks

The Mathematics A-Day (former A-lympiad) is a mathematical competition for teams of 3 or 4 students.

It is one of the three wholeday “Mathematics Days”- events that are organized by the Freudenthal institute of Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

In the Mathematics A-Day, the teams work on an assignment – a very open ended problem situation – in which mathematical problem solving and higher order thinking skills must be used to solve a real world problem. The result of the assignment is a written report. The competition has two rounds: the qualifying preliminary round with about 1000 teams of students competing a day long at their own schools; and an international final in which 16 teams compete during a whole weekend in a central place in the Netherlands on a different assignment.