Easter 2026 Mathematics Courses: Your Complete Guide

Building the essential foundations

If your child is in Year 7 or 8 and will be taking the Junior Maths Challenge in April, this course covers the fundamental topics that form the backbone of success.

These aren’t the very hardest problems in the JMC, but they’re the ones that determine whether students achieve Bronze, Silver, or Gold. Many students miss out on higher certificates simply because they haven’t fully mastered these core areas. This course ensures those foundations are solid and will also allow students to confidently move on to the Advanced courses later in the year.

Even if your child is still in Year 6 or younger, they’re very welcome if they’re working at this level. The Junior Challenge is an excellent target for strong primary students.

Building geometric reasoning skills

If you have taken the Core Topics or Advanced 1 course, this is the natural next step. Geometry, shape and space problems consistently appear in the hardest JMC questions, and many students find this area particularly challenging.

We’ll explore angle problems, area and perimeter challenges, coordinate geometry, and 3D visualisation problems. These topics require a different kind of mathematical thinking – more visual, more spatial, and often requiring elegant insights rather than computational power.

This course perfectly complements the arithmetic and algebra focus of Advanced 1. Together, they cover the complete range of advanced techniques needed for JMC Gold certificates and qualification for follow-on rounds.

Even if you didn’t take the previous courses, this is accessible to strong Year 7-8 students who are comfortable with basic geometry and want to develop more sophisticated spatial reasoning skills.

Logic, counting, and creative problem-solving

This course tackles the questions that require genuine mathematical creativity – the logic puzzles, counting problems, and strategic thinking challenges that appear in the hardest sections of the JMC.

We’ll develop systematic approaches to complex logic problems, master the counting techniques that unlock combinatorics questions, and build the problem-solving strategies needed for questions 16-25. These are the skills that transform good mathematicians into exceptional ones.

If your child wants to develop the creative reasoning and strategic thinking that separates Gold certificate achievers from the rest – and qualify for Junior Kangaroo and Olympiad rounds – this course will challenge and inspire them.

Even if you didn’t take February’s courses, this is accessible to strong Year 7-8 students who are comfortable with basic geometry and want to develop more sophisticated spatial reasoning skills.

Your path to Olympiad qualification

This course is for students who are already well prepared for the JMC and want to push to the very top. Every problem is at the level of questions 21–25 — the ones that determine Olympiad qualification — drawn from past challenges from around the world.

If you’re consistently achieving Gold and want to develop the elite problem-solving skills and creative mathematical thinking that the Junior Olympiad demands, this is the course for you.

Mastering the hardest topics for grades 7-9

If you’re sitting the Edexcel IGCSE Mathematics Higher paper this summer and aiming for grades 7–9, this course targets the topics that carry the most marks in the toughest questions.

Over ten sessions we’ll work through original problems — written specifically for this course — covering indices and surds, coordinate geometry, probability, completing the square and simultaneous equations, quadratics in context, vectors, functions, scale factors in 2D and 3D, and arithmetic sequences. These are the topics that consistently appear in the grade 7–9 questions across recent papers.

Every lesson is problem-based. You’ll be working through carefully chosen questions that build in difficulty, with live guidance from Kevin. See more info about the course at the page here.

The course is designed for students who have covered most of the IGCSE syllabus already and want to sharpen their skills on the hardest material. Studying for a different GCSE specification? Most of the content will still be relevant, though some questions may be specific to the IGCSE.

Preparing for Silver, Gold and beyond

A six-lesson course covering challenging problems across five key areas: number, counting, algebra, geometry, and mixed problem solving. We’ll focus mainly on the questions you’d need to answer well to achieve a Silver or Gold certificate and to qualify for the Senior Kangaroo and BMO follow-on rounds.

This is also a great next step if you’ve been preparing for the Intermediate Maths Challenge and are ready to take on harder problems at the Senior level.

Sessions run on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays (31st March – 2nd April and 7th – 9th April), 45 minutes each.