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Rules

Contest Participants

  • All high school students from grades 2-12 can participate in the contest without prior selection.
  • The participation fee is 2 EUR per participant.

Contest Organization

  • 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.
  • The competition is organized in all schools on the same day — this year, on March 19, 2026, preferably in the morning. In the morning (6:00), the school organizer receives competition materials according to their application on math.kengurs.lv: tasks, answer sheets, and prints them.
  • Each contest participant is given tasks according to their age group. Students mark their answers on the task sheets, but they may also use answer sheets and draft papers. The contest time starts from the moment students receive the tasks: 1 hour and 15 minutes. Immediately after the contest time ends, the school organizer collects the works (or answer sheets) and enters the list of participants and their answers on math.kengurs.lv by April 1.

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]

Determination of Results

After the school organizer has filled in the data entry fields (from March 19 to April 1), this data will reach the Latvian organizing committee and its digital processing will be ensured. Based on the results of this verification, reports will be created, which can be viewed from April 20 on our website math.kengurs.lv.

On the day of receiving the results, the following will be available on the website:

  • report,
  • participant’s certificate,
  • school certificate,
  • teacher’s letter of appreciation,
  • nominal diploma for 1st place in their school for each grade,
  • nominal diploma for those who entered the top 20 in all of Latvia for each grade.

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 moment, the Latvian organizing committee considers claims that have arisen after the verification results (absence of a participant’s results in the school report, doubts about the accuracy of the verification, etc.)