Mr Jeffryes (Mathematics Teacher)

On Thursday 5^th November, 34 Lower and five Upper Sixth Formers participated in the UKMT Senior Mathematical Challenge. The Mathematical Challenge aims to stimulate mathematical problem solving.  It encourages mathematical reasoning, precision of thought and fluency in using basic mathematical techniques to solve interesting problems. The questions on the paper are designed to challenge students to think, not to guess. No calculators allowed!

An example of a question on this year’s paper is:

What is the remainder when 1234 x 5678 is divided by 5?

A 0     B 1     C 2     D 3     E 4

The girls had a chance to get a bronze, silver or gold certificate (in the ratio 1:2:3), if they were in the top 40% of the UK from all those students taking the challenge. Eight students in the Lower Sixth achieved a bronze certificate and one girl received a silver certificate (Bavani Dhinakharan, who was also Best in Year). In the Upper Sixth, two girls achieved bronze and two received silver certificates (Katherine Whitehead and Neve Parsons, who also got Best in School).

UKMT have produced certificates for all of our participating students, which will be distributed in due course. A big congratulations to all these students!