Maths News
PI Day Celebration
PI Day Celebration
The college celebrated Pi (π) Day last Monday,14th of March. There were different activities and competitions in all the Mathematics classes that students enjoyed. There was 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 was a competition for writing words that start with pi, as well as Trivia questions where answers start with pi.
Year 7 students enjoyed the Story time of Sir Cumference and the First Round table. And for the art enthusiasts, there was the color- in competition using the values of pi. Gift vouchers were given to students who won the class challenge activities.
Congratulations to the following winners of the Bake-a-cake contest:
Payton Dunn – First Prize
Allira Aventi – Second Prize
Gemma Lynch – Third Prize
E.BLANCO
Maths Coordinator
E.BLANCO
Maths Coordinator
2022 AUSTRALIAN MATHS COMPETITION
Marian Catholic College will participate in this year’s Australian Mathematics Competition.
It will be on Tuesday, August 16, Periods 1 and 2 in the Hall. The competition will be for 75 minutes. There are 30 questions, 25 of which is a multiple choice questions, and 5 questions require a number answers. Students need to bring a 2B pencil and an eraser only. No calculator is allowed.
This competition is one of the largest educational mathematics competition in Australia. It is an engaging problem solving that demonstrates the importance and relevance of mathematics in students’ everyday lives.
The Competition started in Australia in 1978, was the original, and is now one of the largest of its kind in the world. It is designed to attract students to the joy of maths by demonstrating its place in everyday life and making it fun. More than 40 countries participate in the AMC each year and is recognised as an international benchmark for mathematics performance.
I hope that it will excite and inspire students’ interest in mathematical problem solving and I look forward to sharing the students’ pride in their achievements on the competition.
E. BLANCO
Mathematics Leader of Learning
Riverina Sumdog Competition
8D Maths recently 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 18th to the 25th February requiring students to complete up to 1000 mathematical questions and activities online. Our class of 26 students competed against 24 other classes in the Riverina.
Students were provided with opportunities to complete questions during class and were also encouraged to attempt questions at home.
8D were successful in coming first in the Riverina with congratulations to Gemma Lynch, Kavneet Kaur, Sameer Dhillon and Isabella Sartor, who achieved results that placed them in the top 10 in the Riverina with Karwarpal Singh coming 3rd, Marcus Virago 2nd and Leti Veamatahau who was placed 1st in the Riverina for answering 413 out of the 461 she attempted questions correctly.
Congratulations 8D Maths - keep up the fantastic work!
Belinda Aventi
Mathematics Teacher