MATHS

AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS COMPETITION

The Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC) is internationally recognised and has been held annually since 1978. It is one of the largest annual events on the Australian education calendar. The AMC was the first competition of its kind in Australia and is now one of the largest of its type in the world. With more than 500,000 students in more than 30 countries participating each year. There is an emphasis on problem solving, a valuable life skill, and the questions are designed to be fun for the students. Although it is aimed at the average student, the AMC also identifies gifted students. The problems created for AMC papers are set to the highest possible standards by volunteer teams of the most experienced mathematics teachers and academics in the country. 

This year Evan Lin (Year 8) was the highest performing student in the school and was a prize winner. With 168 McKinnon students competing, 132 achieved a Credit or higher i.e. 79% of the students obtained the top 50% of the marks.  A great achievement!

Students with High Distinctions (top 5% of the state) and Distinctions (top 20% of the state) were:

Year 7 - High Distinctions

Evie Gallo, Ricky Cheng, Nicole Lam, Jack Sweeney, Vernice Koh and Aditi Patil

Year 7 - Distinctions

Katherine Nguyen, Joshua Strunin, Skylar Yuen, Azam Chelakkadan, Mia Chen, Waan Choi, Matthew Dong, Tyne Lee, Verlyn Teo, Isabella Ding, Sahil Shaik, Vincent Dinh, Julian Min, Ava Sullivan, Katie Yang, Ben Green, Delfin Tsalasi, Raghav Senthil Kumar, Neelima Agarwal, Alex Feng, Cheshta Phulara, Andrew Wiraatmadja, Jesse Sumarna, Eeshan Karra and Arnav Mittal

Year 8 - High Distinctions

Davyd Yudko, William Yan, Ryan Jusni and Pranav Senthil Kumar

Year 8 - Distinctions

Aleksandr Kotenko, Luke Zhai, Kevin Gu, Sai Kovuru,  Rohan Karra, Thomas Short, Ariel Golembo,  Jinho Jang, Prarthana Agarwal, Satya Kollimarla, Atahan Ozcagli, Akash Yenna, Rachna Pillai and Maggie Zhou

Year 9 - High Distinctions

Mark Xu

Year 9 - Distinctions

Maya Ben-Harim, Luca Villella, Harry Mills, Jarek Soen, Otto Cox-Martino, Ethan Green and Arnav Gupta

Year 10 - Distinctions

Karleen Han and Tal Rabani

Year 11 - High Distinctions

Yuan Xiang

Year 11 - Distinctions

Yi Jiun Chan and Jessica Salisbury

Year 12 - Distinctions

Yonghan Wang

The Mathematics faculty at McKinnon would like to congratulate all participants and award winners for 2019.  

PS: Make sure you don’t miss out next year, keep an eye on Compass for details at the beginning of 2020.

Bill Manolas

Head of Maths