Thinking mathematically

Top results for Year 9s in the Australian Computational and Algorithmic Thinking Competition

The Computational and Algorithmic Thinking competition is a one-hour problem-solving competition designed to encourage student curiosity and promote multiple modes of thinking.  The competition has a mixture of multiple-choice and integer answers and incorporates unique ‘three-stage tasks’ that encourage students to develop informal algorithms and apply them to test data of increasing size or complexity.  Some questions test the ability to perform procedures, others require logical thought, while the more challenging problems require the identification and application of algorithms.

These students achieved outstanding results in this national competition. Congratulations to them all. There were some incredible results: Zara only missed out on answering one question correctly, and the rest of the students missed out on just two. It is a fabulous achievement. Well done to:

• Zara Baglioni (best in school)
• Marcus Costantini
• Magnus Mulhall
• Matteo Rossi Hunt
• Mathew Santoro
• Amelie Sibillin
• Audrey Zohrab