Maths is boring? Not if you ask the Blije Bruintjes

— After a thrilling final, the Blije Bruintjes from the Sint-Franciscusinstituut in Brakel won the Wiskunnend Wiske maths competition. The Mathematics Department at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) organises the competition each year on Pi Day, 14 March. More than 2,000 pupils from the fifth and sixth years of secondary education in Flanders compete against each other by putting their maths knowledge to the test. They compete for their school's honour and to take home the coveted Pi Trophy. After three online editions of the event because of Covid, the classes who scored well in the preliminaries descended on the VUB campus in Brussels to contest the finals. Some 450 pupils from 42 classes were presented with challenging maths tasks to solve in groups. The Red Thread, the Spinning Spiders, the Shrewd Spy.