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For Organizers

1. Organizer

The competition in Latvia is implemented by the Latvian organizing committee of the “Kangaroo” contest. In each school participating in the competition, an organizer is appointed who is responsible for conducting the competition at the school.

2. Purpose of the Competition

The main goal is to involve as many young people as possible in solving unconventional math problems and to show each student that mathematics can be exciting and decoding problems can be endlessly interesting.

3. Participants

All Latvian school students from grades 2 to 12 are eligible to participate in the competition without prior selection. The participation fee is 2 EUR per participant. (Badges for every participant!)

4. Duration and Location

The competition is organized in all schools on the same day — this year, on March 19, 2026, preferably in the morning.

5. Registration for the Competition

Registration for the competition is available on our website.

6. Website Access

6.1 Educational institutions and responsible school organizers who have already registered on the math.kengurs.lv website:

Registration for the “Kangaroo-2026” competition begins on the math.kengurs.lv website (performed either by the educational institution or the responsible organizer).

6.2 Educational institutions that were not registered on the kengurs.lv website:

Website registration: – send an email to [email protected] with detailed information about the educational institution (institution name, email, phone number, and website links).


Registration confirmation: – an email will be sent to the educational institution’s email address with a username and password to access the math.kengurs.lv website. After logging in to the website, you will need to fill out an information form about the educational institution.

7. Account Types

The same account can be a responsible organizer and teacher in different schools.

The following functions are available on the math.kengurs.lv website:

7.1 School Account:

  • Confirmation of participation in the competition.
  • Create a responsible organizer account.
  • Creation of teacher accounts.
  • Concluding an agreement between the school and competition organizers.
  • Receiving competition materials.
  • Payment for the competition
  • Obtaining competition results (diplomas, certificates, acknowledgments).

7.2 Responsible Organizer Account:

  • Confirmation of participation in the competition.
  • Creation of teacher accounts.
  • Concluding an agreement between the school and competition organizers.
  • Receiving competition materials.
  • Entering information about competition participants.
  • Entering organizer names for certificates.
  • Payment for the competition.
  • Receiving competition results (diplomas, certificates, acknowledgments).

7.3 Teacher Account:

  • Entering information about competition participants.

8. Math Competition Procedure

The competition is held in all schools on the same day, this year on March 19, 2026, preferably in the morning. The competition takes place in Latvian, Russian, and English languages.

8.1 Key Dates:

  • 01/06/2026 – Registration opens for the “Kangaroo-2026” competition (conducted either by the educational institution or the responsible organizer).
  • 03/19/2026 – Competition Day: Competition materials become available from 6:00 AM (for educational institutions and responsible organizers) with the ability to enter information about participants and organizers (for responsible organizers and teachers).
  • 04/01/2026 – Information Entry Deadline: Completion of data entry process for participants and organizers.
  • 04/20/2026 – Payment Deadline: Final date for educational institutions to complete payment.
  • 04/20/2026 – Competition Results: Publication of competition results. Electronic versions of diplomas, certificates, and confirmations will be available on the website.

8.2 Responsible Organizers on the day of the competition:

Access to competition materials:
– From 6:00 AM, competition materials (tasks and answer sheets) will be available on the math.kengurs.lv website for school and school organizer accounts, which must be printed for each participant.

Competition procedure:
– Each participant is provided with tasks corresponding to their age group;
– Students mark their answers on the answer sheets and may also use scratch paper;
– The use of calculators, smartwatches, mobile phones, or other electronic devices is not permitted during the competition;
– The competition time—1 hour and 15 minutes—begins from the moment students receive the tasks.

Entering participant information:
– The responsible organizer, in cooperation with teachers, enters information about the competition participants (first name, last name, grade, language, answers) on the math.kengurs.lv website by 2026-04-01.

8.3 Results Reception Day:

The following will be available to the responsible organizer on math.kengurs.lv:

  • e-report,
  • nominal e-certificates for participants,
  • school e-certificate,
  • teacher e-acknowledgment,
  • nominal e-diploma for 1st place in their school for each parallel class,
  • nominal e-diplomas for students who ranked in the top twenty mathematicians in Latvia for each grade level from 2nd to 12th grade.

9. Winner Awards

“Kengurs” is a mass competition, and the awarding of prizes after its results is also mass-scale. All participants, without exception, receive gifts and certificates (in electronic format) stating their scores. These certificates are printed by the school organizer and presented at the school.

From May 5 to May 31, gifts will be sent to schools for each participant, as well as diplomas and prizes for students who have made it into the top twenty Latvian mathematicians in each grade level from 2nd to 12th grade (TOP 20).

Attention! Riga schools receive gift packages through their mailboxes at the Riga Department of Education, Culture and Sports

(RD IKSD), Krišjāņa Valdemāra Street 5, Riga.

For more information, please write to: [email protected]

10. Determining Results

To ensure the reliability and objectivity of the competition results, both the Latvian organizing committee and the school organizer ensure that all participants follow the rules. Based on the results of this monitoring, individual students or entire school grade levels where serious violations of competition rules were detected may be disqualified (removed from the participant count). The decision on disqualification is made by the Latvian organizing committee based on the analysis of verification results. All files with recorded answers are stored by the Latvian Organizing Committee until October 1 of the current year. Until this date, the Latvian Organizing Committee will review any claims arising from the results (e.g., missing participant results in the school report, doubts about the accuracy of the grading, etc.).