Mathematics

Mathematics

During this term, many of our high achieving mathematics students across both the Primary and Secondary schools sat the Australian Mathematics Competition.  As school-based maths competitions go, they don’t get much bigger than this—with more than 15 million entries since 1978 and students in more than 30 countries attempting the same problems each year.

The competition focuses on problem-solving style questions, where students need to think logically and rationally to solve questions set in unfamiliar contexts.  This year, the results at Blackfriars were possibly our strongest ever with many students across the school achieving awards.

The following students achieved as credit:

• Year 3 – Manav Agheda, Hung Bui, Samuel Pedlar
• Year 4 – Riaan Singla, Benjamin Stargatt, Ashton Zeuner
• Year 5 – Kian Leonard, Luca D'Orazio, Liam Le, Simon Mazzarolo, Ashwin Pangly
• Year 6 – Christian Valentincic, Aaron Nguyen, Harrison Zeuner
• Year 7 – Brian Vien, Martin Nguyen, Dominic Canil, Anton Luc
• Year 8 – Harrison Dallimore, Kevin Dang, Joon Kwon, Keyshon Dalton
• Year 9 – Steven Gelastopoulos, Nicholas Cacayorin, Hy Buu, Declan Hillman, Sang Le, Matthew Vanderwoude
• Year 10 – Tam Dang, Isaac Lawrence, Joseph Snelling, Kevin Do
• Year 11 – Frank Snelling, Julian Cornish, Minh-Khoi Tran, Cornas Ling, Harrison Catley
• Year 12 – Manh-Hung Doan, Hieu Ngo, Trung Bui

The following students achieved a distinction:

• Year 3 – Andrew Nghiem, Joey Anemouri
• Year 4 – Mark Tsavdaridis, Panteli Vasilopoulos, Anay Vishal
• Year 5 – Minh-Chuong Tran, Antony Barresi, Josh Holland, Luca Emmerson, Kevin Le
• Year 7 – Matthew Jones
• Year 8 – Nathan Sewart, Harry Boyd-Turner, Jackson Puddy
• Year 9 – Alan Banh
• Year 10 – Yemo Koo, Jaimin Lim
• Year 11 – Peter Le
• Year 12 – Youngmo Koo

The following students were awarded a high distinction, an honour only given to a select few across Australasia.  To further highlight their amazing achievement, I have written their percentile result following their names. 

• Year 5 – Minh Lam (98th percentile),
• Year 6 – Andrew Bui (97th percentile), Maximus Roque (98th percentile), Hugh Caton (100th percentile – Top of Primary School)
• Year 7 – Akshat Dev (99th percentile)
• Year 8 – Jonah De-Vizio (99th percentile), Enrich (Angelo) Dela Cruz (100th percentile –Top of Secondary School)

Congratulations to these students and to all students who were involved in this competition.  I encourage you all to put your hand up and push yourself to get involved in competitions like this as they help foster resilience, persistence and improve your mathematical abilities and problem-solving skills.

Mr Dan Winter

CURRICULUM LEADER - MATHEMATICS