University of Southampton National Cipher Challenge

Out of school events, student and teacher resources, age range 11-19

The National Cipher Challenge is an online code-breaking competition for UK schools, taken by a wide spread of abilities and ages. The competition is run annually throughout the autumn term with graded challenges published periodically over a period of three months. The messages to be broken are the chapters in an adventure story, enriched with ideas from science, history and engineering. Solutions are published throughout the competition so that those who are struggling can still follow. The scheme introduces participants to the thrill of discovery and genuine problem solving in mathematics and computer science. It presents mathematics as an exciting activity and involves them in a long term project that is often seen as real and involving by the competitors.

Contact Name

Graham Niblo

Contact E-Mail

For more details please e-mail cipher@soton.ac.uk.

Web Site

For more details please visit http://www.cipher.maths.soton.ac.uk

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