QAMT Quiz

Year 7/8 students continue to set high standards in Mathematics after the Pacific A team were announced as the overall winners last Tuesday of the Queensland Association of Mathematics Teachers annual inter-school quiz. The Pacific B team also performed well placing fifth overall.

The students were tested over five rounds including Estimation, Speed, Problem Solving (individual and team) and General Knowledge. The aim of the quiz was to engage high achieving students in mathematics and encouraged teamwork and co-operation. The students competed with great spirit and showed great commitment to solving complex problems.

The Pacific A team will now move on to the regional final later this month.

Congratulations to the following students on their efforts -

Team A: Noah Winten, Liam Russell, Callum Foley

Team B: Sebastian Box, Noah Smith, Piper Reid, Joshua Turnbull, Ben McCormac    

Mathematics Challenge for Young Australians

Earlier this year, a number of students across Years 6 to 9 completed in the Mathematics Challenge for Young Australians (MCYA) organised by the Australian Mathematical Olympiad Committee.

The MCYA Challenge was held during a consecutive 4-week period between May and June. It comprised four problems for primary students and six problems for students in secondary levels. Problems could be discussed in groups of two or three registered students before individual submission of solutions. There were separate problem sets for Upper Primary (Year 5-6), Junior (Year 7–8) and Intermediate (Year 9–10) students.

Recently, the results arrived back at the College and a number of Pacific students performed very well.

DISTINCTION (Top 25%)

Noah Winten Year 8

Harry Collishaw Year 9

CREDIT (Top 50%)

Year 8 - Noah Smith, Sebastian Box, Deepal Maharaj, Adelaide Howard, Holly Bennett,

Year 6 – Logan Pohlner, Kirrily Petfield, Taylor Mikolic, Charlie Garland

Mr Andrew Block, QAMT Co-ordinator and Year 7 Mathematics/Science Teacher