Mathematics @ GEC

Many exciting things have been happening in Maths this term so far!

Week 2 saw many students competing in three different competitions, and I feel so proud of them all.

On Wednesday 4th May Ridhi Panuganti, Shivam Prajapati, Kailash Nagaraj, Aarush Panuganti, Ishaan Jagtap, Sharannya Chakravorty, Dhwani Srivastava, Pranit Praveen (all from Year 7), Alex Tari, Finn Malcolm, David Scott, Zac Hnatko, Jamie Katic And Saket Samala (all from Year 9) competed in the School Mathematics Competition 2022 organised by University of Melbourne! 

The University of Melbourne - School Mathematics Competition endeavours to identify, reward and encourage true mathematical talent among the school population. The competition is designed so that mathematical insight and ingenuity are needed for success rather than efficiency in tackling routine examples.  The Year 7s sat a two hour exam while the Year 9s sat a three hour exam.

On the same day, two of our senior students Archie Halliwell and Jason Scott sat a one hour Algorithmic and Computational Thinking Competition.  The Computational and Algorithmic Thinking or CAT competition incorporates unique three stage tasks that encourage students to develop informal algorithms and apply them to test data of increasing size or complexity. CAT aims to identify coding potential and is open to students in years 5 to 12. 

Also on Wednesday 4th May a few students from Years 7 and 8 sat the Maths Olympiad competition, the second one out of 5 competitions held throughout the year.

The day continued to be a highlight for our students even at night when the following Year 7 and Year 8 students excelled through their active participation at Open Night by confidently making speeches and running various Maths activities with the prospective students of GEC in the forthcoming years. 

I felt so proud of these students for their active and enthusiastic participation at Open Night: 

Louise Eymin Petot Tourtollet, Connor Meade, Ishaan Jagtap, Marko Le, Mercedes Lew, Tarun Madan, Ridhi Panuganti, Shivam Prajapati, Ben Steinberg and Nicholas Sujana.

Ben and Nicholas confidently spoke about one of the problem solving tasks that their class worked on collaboratively in small groups by coming up with a strategy to solve the problem.

Let the excitement continue!

Arivu Kumaran

Maths Learning Area Leader