FOBISIA MATHEMATICS ONLINE CHALLENGE  
DATES  6 - 7 November 2025 
HOST  The British School in Colombo

The British School Colombo's FOBISIA Hardy–Ramanujan Alpha Online Mathematics Challenge 2025 was an inspiring celebration of mathematical brilliance that brought together nearly 450 young mathematicians from FOBISIA schools across Asia. Over two days of intense yet joyful competition, students demonstrated exceptional analytical thinking, creativity, and collaboration—reminding us how powerful mathematics can be in uniting minds and cultures. Congratulations to all the students who participated and to the winning students and teams:

Top-Level Award Winners
Awards were determined by combined scores from both the individual and group rounds, with Gold, Silver, Bronze, Merit, and Participation certificates allocated through a structured percentile system.  A full breakdown of results can be seen: KS3 Results / KS4&5 Results

Gold Award Recipients – KS3
1st - Singapore International School Bangkok
2nd - Dulwich College Seoul
3rd - Brighton College Singapore
4th - Prince of Wales Island International School Balik Pulau
5th - The British School in Colombo
5th - Kolej Tuanku Ja’afar

Gold Award Recipients – KS4 & KS5
1st - Singapore International School Bangkok
2nd - Singapore International School Bangkok
3rd - Kolej Tuanku Ja’afar
4th - Singapore International School Bangkok
5th - Haileybury Almaty

The Ramanujan Star Award was given  for the highest individual scorers:
Ramanujan Star Award – KS3
Lingyi – Brighton College Singapore
Ahelie – The British School in Colombo
Nayeli – The British School in Colombo
 

Ramanujan Star Award – KS4 & KS5
Akylbek – Haileybury Almaty
Panas – Singapore International School Bangkok

The Hardy Team Excellence Award for the top-performing collaborative groups.
Hardy Team Excellence Award – KS3
Dulwich College Seoul (2 teams)
Prince of Wales Island International School Balik Pulau
Kolej Tuanku Ja’afar
The British School in Colombo

Hardy Team Excellence Award – KS4 & KS5
Singapore International School Bangkok (3 teams)
Kolej Tuanku Ja’afar (2 teams)
Haileybury Almaty (2 teams)
Traill International School Thailand
The British School in Colombo

 Maths Code breaking Challenge (online)  
DATES  22 - 26 September 2025
HOST  British International School, Phuket

A huge thank you to British International School, Phuket - BISP for hosting this incredible event for the fourth year running! Over 110 schools from across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas took part in a week filled with problem-solving, perseverance, and pattern recognition!
📊 This year’s competition in numbers:
✨ 35,000+ unique users
✨ 1.8 million page views
✨ 40,000 code levels completed
✨ 30,000+ hours of code breaking!

🏆 Congratulations to the top three winning schools:
1️⃣ Shrewsbury International School Bangkok Riverside
2️⃣ HELP International School
3️⃣ The International School at ParkCity
 

PAST EVENTS

 Code breaking Challenge (online) 
WAS HELD ON  23 - 27 September 2024
HOST  British International School, Phuket
Read more: THE FOBISIAN Issue 46, Term 1 December 2024

 Y5-Y9 CODE BREAKING MATHS CHALLENGE (ONLINE) 
WAS HELD ON  18 - 22 September 2023
HOST  British International School, Phuket
Read more: THE FOBISIAN Issue 43, Term 1 December 2023

 ONLINE MATHS COMPETITION: CODEBREAKING 
WAS HELD ON  26 - 30 September 2022
BY British International School, Phuket
Approximately 10,335 students from 68 FOBISIA Schools participated in this competition.
The five schools according to Leaderboard entries were as follows:

Read more: THE FOBISIAN Issue 40, Term 1 November 2022

 FOBISIA PRIMARY LITERACY & NUMERACY FESTIVAL 
WAS HELD ON 16 -18 January 2022
BY Education Perfect
Approximately 1,479 students from 20 FOBISIA Schools took part in this and answered a total of 1,403,871 questions.
Top 3 Schools (by average score)
1st: elc International School
2nd: British Vietnamese International School Ho Chi Minh City
3rd: Charter International School Bangkok
Read more: THE FOBISIAN Issue 38, Term 2 February 2022

 ONLINE MATHS COMPETITION 2021 
WAS HELD ON 4 - 8 October 2021
BY Seoul Foreign British School

 Primary Video Challenge 
1st Place: Bangkok Prep International School
2nd Place: Taipei European School
3rd Place: The British School, New Delhi

 Secondary Video Challenge 
1st Place: Haileybury Almaty
2nd Place: Dulwich College Soul
3rd Place: Seoul Foreign British School

 Primary Group Challenge 
tied 1st Place: Bangkok Patana School, Shrewsbury International School Bangkok Riverside
2nd Place: British School in Tokyo, Discovery Bay International School, Tenby Setia Eco Park
3rd Place: The Regent's International School Bangkok

 Secondary Group Challenge 
1st Place: Crescendo HELP International School
2nd Place: The Alice Smith School Kuala Lumpur
3rd Place: British School in Tokyo, Garden International School Eastern Seaboard Ban Chang

 ONLINE MATHS COMPETITION 2021 
WAS HELD ON 15 - 19 March 2021 (Held Online in 2021)
BY EP & The British School Manila
38 member schools participated in this competition and a total of 2,342,057 questions were answered with 3,312 students participating.
Stage 1 School winners: 
1st Place: Taipei European School
2nd Place: British International School Ho Chi Minh City
3rd Place: North London Collegiate School Jeju

Stage 2 Winners: (Competition between the top 20 Year 6 students from Stage 1)
1st Place: Philip of Taipei European School
Joint 2nd Place: Eric of British International School Ho Chi Minh City
Joint 2nd Place: Jeff of Taipei European School
3rd Place: Terry of North London Collegiate School Jeju

 ONLINE SECONDARY MATHS COMPETITION 2020 
WAS HELD ON 2 - 4 November 2020
BY EP & Kolej Tuanku Ja'afar
14 member schools participated in this competition. There were 5 categories in total: Individual Challenge, Group Challenge, Geometry Challenge, Goose Chase as well as Project Work.
Overall winners: 
1st Place: The British School Manila
2nd Place: North London Collegiate School, Jeju
3rd Place: The British School in Colombo
Read more: THE FOBISIAN Issue 35, Term 2 February 2021

 ONLINE PRIMARY MATHS COMPETITION 2019 
WAS HELD ON  4 - 15 November 2019
BY Garden International School, Rayong
Read more: THE FOBISIAN Issue 32, Term 2 February 2020

 ONLINE PRIMARY MATHS COMPETITION 2018 
WAS HELD ON  8 - 19 October 2018 
BY Seoul Foreign School
42 member schools from across South East Asia participated in this event
Read more: THE FOBISIAN Issue 29, Term 2 February 2019

 ONLINE MATHS COMPETITION 2017 
WAS HOSTED IN October - November 2017 
BY The ABC International School, Ho Chi Minh City
38 schools and 148 students participated in 2017
1st Place: The British School New Delhi
2nd Place: The British School of Manila
3rd Place: Dulwich College Beijing
Read more: THE FOBISIAN Issue 26, Term 2 February 2018

 PRIMARY MATHS COMPETITION 2026 
DATES  6 - 7 March 2026
HOST Dulwich College Shanghai Pudong and Dulwich College Shanghai Puxi

Held across both campuses, the event welcomed 42 schools, 80 teams and over 300 pupils.

🎉 Congratulations to our winners:
North London Collegiate School Jeju – Year 5 champions
Dulwich College Shanghai Pudong – Year 6 champions
Overall champions – Dulwich College Shanghai Pudong

Alongside the in-person competition, an online Times Tables Rock Stars tournament ran in parallel,
👏 Congratulations to Panyathip British International School International School on their success.

PAST EVENTS

Due to huge demand, this year FOBISIA had two Primary Math's Competitions, taking place on the same weekend but in different countries. 32 differrent schools took part, with 17 schools at each of the two events. 

 PRIMARY MATHS COMPETITION 2020 
Cancelled due to Covid-19

PROPOSED FOR 6 - 7 March 2020
INTENTION TO HOST BY elc International School, Selangor

 PRIMARY MATHS COMPETITION 2019 
WAS HOSTED ONLINE 22 - 25 January 2019
HOSTED BY International School of Brunei
29 Schools competed with 116 participants in total
1st Place: British International School, Ho Chi Minh City
2nd Place: British International School, Jeju
3rd Place: Shrewsbury International School, Bangkok

 PRIMARY MATHS COMPETITION 2018 
WAS HELD ON 22 - 24 March 2018
HOSTED BY The ABC International School, Ho Chi Minh City
30 Schools competed with 120 participants in total
1st Place: British International School, Ho Chi Minh City

 PRIMARY MATHS COMPETITION 2017 
WAS HELD ON 16 - 18 March 2017
HOSTED BY The Alice Smith School Kuala Lumpur
19 Schools competed with 76 participants in total
1st Place: Dulwich College Beijing
1st Place: Tanglin Trust School
3rd Place: Dulwich College Shanghai

 PRIMARY MATHS COMPETITION 2016 
WAS HELD ON 11 - 13 March 2016
HOSTED BY British School of Guangzhou
28 Schools competed with 76 participants in total
1st Place: British School of Shanghai
Read more: THE FOBISIAN Issue 21 Term 2, April 2016

 PRIMARY MATHS COMPETITION 2015 
WAS HELD ON 6-7 March 2015
HOSTED BY The British International School Shanghai, Puxi

 PRIMARY MATHS COMPETITION 2014 
WAS HELD IN early March 2014
HOSTED BY Alice Smith School Kuala Lumpur
Read more: THE FOBISIAN Issue 15 Term 2 April 2014

 PRIMARY MATHS COMPETITION 2013 
WAS HELD ON 11 - 13 March 2013
BY The British School of Guangzhou
30 Schools competed with 120 participants in total

 FOBISSEA PRIMARY MATHS COMPETITION 2012 
WAS HELD ON  1 - 4 March 2012
BY  British School Manila
20 Schools competed in this competition
Read more: THE FOBISSEAN Issue 9 Term 2 April 2011

 FOBISSEA PRIMARY MATHS COMPETITION 2011 
WAS HELD ON  4 - 5 March 2011
BY  Bangkok Patana School
112 students participated in this competition
Read more: THE FOBISSEAN Issue 6, Term 2 April 2010

 INAUGURAL FOBISSEA PRIMARY MATHS COMPETITION 2010 
WAS HELD ON 5 - 7 February 2010
BY  The Alice Smith School Kuala Lumpur
Read more: THE FOBISSEAN Issue 3, Term 2 April 2009

 Secondary Maths Competition 2026  
DATE 6 - 7 February 2026
HOST Bangkok Patana School

PAST EVENTS

 SECONDARY MATHS COMPETITION 2025 
WAS HELD ON 16 - 18 January 2025
BY  Garden International School Kuala Lumpur
Read more: THE FOBISIAN Issue 47, Term 2-3 April 2025

 SECONDARY MATHS COMPETITION 2023 (F2F) 
WAS HELD ON 13-16 April 2023
BY  English School of Mongolia
Read more: THE FOBISIAN Issue 42, Term 3 June 2023

 SECONDARY MATHS COMPETITION 2022 
WAS HOSTED ONLINE 14-16 March 2022
BY The English School of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar
22 Member Schools competed and over 180 students competed in this event 
Read more: THE FOBISIAN Issue 39, Term 3 June 2022

 SECONDARY MATHS COMPETITION 2019 
WAS HELD ON 23 -25 March 2019
BY The Alice Smith School Kuala Lumpur
36 Schools competed in this event and 263 students were involved in this competition

 SECONDARY MATHS COMPETITION 2018 
WAS HELD ON 8 - 9 March 2018
BY British International School of Shanghai

 SECONDARY MATHS COMPETITION 2017 
WAS HELD ON 12 - 13 May 2017
BY The British School of Beijing, Shunyi
22 Schools competed in this event

 SECONDARY MATHS COMPETITION 2016 
WAS HELD ON  25 - 28 February 2016
BY elc International School
200 students were welcomed from 24 International School across 8 countries.
1st Place: Dulwich College Seoul
2nd Place: The Alice Smith School Kuala Lumpur
4rd Place: Dulwich College Beijing
Read more: THE FOBISIAN Issue 21, Term 2 April 2016

 SECONDARY MATHS COMPETITION 2015 
WAS HELD ON  12 - 15 March 2015
BY The ABC International School
164 Students from 18 International Schools across 8 countries in Asia competed in this event
Read more: THE FOBISIAN Issue 18, Term 2 April 2015