Maths Challenge Finalists 2022
We are delighted to announce the finalists in the recent UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge. In Lower Fifth, Francesca and Maria gained Bronze Certificates with Maria taking the Best in Year.
In Upper Fifth, Emily achieved a Bronze Certificate, Érin a Silver Award and Pak Wai swept the board with a Gold Certificate, Best in Year and Best in School.
Pak Wai scored so highly that she has been invited to take part in the prestigious Pink Kangaroo round, which she will sit this week.
Well done to all the girls for their outstanding achievements. Here’s an idea of the problems they were dealing with:
Girls are invited to practice questions like these in the Maths Challenge Club on Wednesday lunchtimes with Mrs Vallance.
Maths Challenge!
Ages 5 - 7
Andrew decorated 20 biscuits to take to a party.
He lined them up and put icing on every second biscuit.
Then he put a cherry on every third biscuit.
Then he put a chocolate button on every fourth biscuit.
So there was nothing on the first biscuit.
How many other biscuits had no decoration? Did any biscuits get all three decorations?
Ages 7 - 11
“Can you make square numbers by adding two prime numbers together?”
Ages 11 - 14
1 kilobyte is actually not 1000 bytes, it is 210 bytes.
1 megabyte is 210 kilobytes.
How many bytes are there in 1 megabyte?
Ages 14 - 16
Take a look at the system of equations below:
ab=1
bc=2
cd=3
de=4
ea=6
Can you find a set of values {a, b, c, d, e} that satisfy the system?
Can you find more than one?
Ages 16 - 18
Find the range of values of x for which
x√+1x√<4,where x√ is the positive root.
Looking for some more maths challenges?
Try visiting https://nrich.maths.org/covid19 - this site was created by Cambridge University with activities and games from age 3 to 18.
Or why not try…
- Board games
- Card games
- Games with counters (such as nim listed above)
- sudoku and other printable games above.
- Cooking: weighting and measuring and buying ingredients
TOP TIP FOR PARENTS: Children can explain to you what they are doing and what they were going to try to solve a problem. Avoid leaping in and solving it for them, the journey is more important than the destination.