Maths News

PI Day Celebration

The college will celebrate Pi (π) Day on Friday 13th of March. There will different activities and competitions in all the Mathematics classes that students will enjoy.  There will be the yearly bake a cake/cupcake contest for the culinary enthusiasts where the students’ creativity in decorating the pie cakes/cupcakes was the main criteria in judging. There will also be a competition for writing words that start with pi…, as well as Trivia questions where answers start with pi. Last year, a  Pi symphony was organised. We will try to have one this year. Other students will enjoy the Story time of Sir Cumference and the First Round table. And for the art enthusiasts, there will be the color in competition using the values of pi.

E.BLANCO

Maths Coordinator

Mathematics  News -Riverina Sumdog Competition

7F Maths competed in the Riverina competition held by the online learning engine Sumdog. Sumdog provides an engaging and adaptive online education platform where students answer mathematical questions, individually personalised, within a gaming environment.  The Riverina competition was held between 28th Feb - 5th March requiring students to complete 1000 mathematical questions and activities online.  Our class of 25 students competed against 17 other classes in the Riverina. 

7F were successful in coming first in the Riverina with congratulations to Jack Beltrame, Harry Johnstone and Gabriella Fidow, who achieved results that placed them in the top 10 in the Riverina with Angelo Macri coming 3rd, Johnathan Catanzariti 2nd and Uday Toor who was placed 1st in the Riverina for answering 914 of the 1000 questions correctly. The class won a six-month subscription to Sumdog which enables them to access further features of the Sumdog learning engine. 

Congratuations 7F Maths - keep up the fantastic work!

Belinda Aventi

Mathematics Teacher