Maths Week

In-Person and Online, Saturday 12th October – Sunday 20th October

Maths Week Ireland is an all-island initiative promoting positive attitudes towards maths and highlighting the importance of maths in our lives since 2006. This annual festival is a collaborative partnership of organisations including all the universities, institutes of technology, professional bodies, visitor centres and more.

Maths Week is one of four national STEM festivals: it engaged directly with over 500,00 people in 2023, making it the world’s largest maths festival.

The idea for Maths Week originated in 2005 with Sheila Donegan and Eoin Gill, directors of Calmast STEM Outreach Centre at Waterford Institute of Technology. After several years working hard to promote STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths), they came to the realisation that maths was the foundation underpinning all of STEM and in order to increase uptake among the public, attitudes towards maths had to change.