Mathematics @ GEC

While I am always proud of every single student in making continuous progress with their learning outcomes every single day, I am also proud of students willing to participate in many different competitions that are held by many Maths organisations throughout the year. Though I consider every single participant a winner, I would like to highlight some achievements by some students in some of these competitions in this edition of newsletter.

Congratulations goes to…

Archie Halliwell in Year 10 for achieving a distinction in the intermediate division of the Computational and Algorithmic Thinking competition held by Australian Maths Trust.
Jason Scott in Year 11 for achieving a credit in the senior division of the Computational and Algorithmic Thinking competition held by Australian Maths Trust.

Congratulations also goes to…

The following students in Year 7 who participated and achieved a distinction in the junior division of the Australian Maths Competition held by Australian Maths Trust:

Kailash Nagaraj, Asher Greenblat, Nicholas Sujana, Avik Kamath, Siddharth Rao, Allan McGowan, Marko Le, Patrick Mills, Jake Steinburger, Miro Nikakis, Ridhi Panuganti, Ishaan Jagtap

The following student in Year 8 who participated and achieved a distinction in the junior division of the Australian Maths Competition held by Australian Maths Trust:

Nicholas Jiang

The following students in Year 9 who participated and achieved a distinction in the intermediate division of the Australian Maths Competition held by Australian Maths Trust:

Alexander Tari, Jamie Katic, Pooja Sai Shruthika Medisetti, Saket Samala

The following students in Year 7 who participated and achieved a credit in the junior division of the Australian Maths Competition held by Australian Maths Trust:

Milja Lin, Elsie Barrett, Shivam Prajapati, Ben Steinberg, Aarush Panuganti, Camille Duff, Qinger Wu, Moritz Hau, Faustine Eymin, Constance Roy, Dhwani Srivastava, Monako Bernabe, Tarun Madan, Estelle Lebeau, Mathis Trevisani, Tristan Fazekas, Gabe Merl, Mercedes Lew, Arthur Dutrieux

The following students in Year 8 who participated and achieved a credit in the junior division of the Australian Maths Competition held by Australian Maths Trust:

Michael Davey, Boris Tosovic, Madeleine Thomas, Kushal Sathish, Sri Vishnu Priya Venkata Raman

The following students in Year 9 who participated and achieved a credit in the intermediate division of the Australian Maths Competition held by Australian Maths Trust:

Param Dave, Shanmukh Chennuri, Arun Sankar, Adi Raju Reddycharla, Ema Chadwick, David Scott, Jarvis Crawford, Max Robbs, Zac Hnatko, Sean Burke, Constance Gaudey, Hunter Bowman

More students who participated also achieved proficiency in the Australian Maths Competition.

Congratulations to the following students for their participation in Maths Olympiad competitions throughout the year, run by APSMO (Australian Problem Solving Mathematical Olympiads):

Kailash Nagaraj, Siddharth Rao, Shivam Prajapati, Ridhi Panuganti, Aarush Panuganti, Sharannya Chakravorty, Hasini Vinjamuri, Dhwani Srivastava, Pranit Praveen, Arjun Nair, Pranav Swarup, Nikunj Savniya, Gabriel Torres Alvarez, Nicholas Jiang, Riya Kanta, Saanvi Hiremath, Anusha Srinivasan, Maya Sheferson, Asher Greenbelt and Qinger Wu.

This year the Olympiad team has won the ‘Outstanding Team award’.

Kailash Nagaraj gained an award for the highest score and an award for his ranking in the top 10%.

Nicholas Jiang has achieved an award for his ranking in the top 10%. Riya Kanta and Ridhi Panuganti both have achieved an award for their ranking in the top 25%.

My best wishes to all the participants and I hope more students will participate next year to gain more confidence in being able to apply their thinking skills in solving problems!

Arivu Kumaran

Maths Learning Area Leader

Maths Talent Quest

The Maths Association of Victoria have announced that Louise Eymin of 8B has won first prize in the 2022 Maths Talent Quest.

A talented mathematician and a talented musician, Louise chose The Mathematics Behind Sound as the topic for her project. The first section of her project investigated the mathematics involved in the study of music, the second section investigated the mathematical concepts behind sound itself and the third section explored sound recognition using mathematics. As part of the project, Louise played Pachelbel’s Canon in D and used mathematics to analyse the repetitive structure of its rhythm and patterns.

All projects were ranked on Originality, Mathematical Content, Communication and Presentation. The judges commented that Louise’s project had in-depth investigative processes with clear indications of the mathematics involved at a level above expectation.

Louise’s project was judged to be the best individual project by a Year 8 student in Victoria. The Maths Association of Victoria sent only one entry from each year level in each category to represent the state in the Australian Maths Talent Quest where Louise’s project was highly commended.

Along with a $50 voucher, Louise attended a ceremony at IMAX Melbourne on Thursday 20 October where she received a prize certificate for her entry into the national Maths Talent Quest.

Congratulations Louise.

Gerry Cameron

Maths Teacher