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The Senior Maths Challenge saw 114 Sixth Formers, top Year 11 sets and a number of Year 10 pupils take part, with students achieving 63 Gold, 69 Silver and 38 Bronze certificates.
Daniel Chen and Hongli Hu (both Lower Sixth) scored full marks, while 30 students qualified for the Senior Kangaroo, where 10 Merits were attained.
Twenty-five students from Year 10 to Upper Sixth took part in the Maths Olympiad for Girls. Emma Harris, Yunlin Chen (both Lower Sixth), Mabel Symes, Alina Turchyn, Bibi Elliott, Yolanda Xue, Rebecca Li and Natalie Ronco (all Year 11) were awarded Distinctions, while Emma and Mabel also won book prizes for being among the top 30 scorers.
Round one of the British Maths Olympiad (BMO) was entered by 26 students. Daniel Chen and Emma Harris (both Lower Sixth) were awarded Medals, while Distinctions were gained by Can Dogan, Katherine Liang, Samuel Simons (all Upper Sixth), Andrew Girgis, Peter Wei (both Lower Sixth), Mabel Symes (Year 11), Arthur Depledge and Tom Hammond (both Year 10).
In round two of the BMO – the most prestigious level of UK Maths Trust competitions – Daniel and Emma were awarded a Distinction and Merit respectively, with both placing in the top 20 students nationally.
The Intermediate Maths Challenge was taken by more than 400 pupils ranging from Years 8 to 11.
They achieved 108 Gold, 84 Silver and 39 Bronze awards, with Arthur Depledge, Neelkantha Mukherjee (both Year 10) and Ganesh Mullaparthi (Year 11) scoring full marks.
Sixty-four Year 9 and 8 pupils qualified for the Grey Kangaroo competition with 28 achieving a Merit, while 67 Year 10 and 11 pupils reached the Pink Kangaroo with 16 achieving a Merit.
In addition, 34 pupils took part in the Intermediate Maths Olympiad. Arthur Depledge, Steven Kong and Tom Hammond (all Year 10) were awarded Bronzes for placing in the top 100 nationally, while Kuan Kuan Lin, Natalie Ronco, Mabel Symes (all Year 11) and Zoe Walters (Year 9) achieved Distinctions. Roy Han (Year 8) was one of the youngest participants.
All Lower School pupils took part in the Junior Maths Challenge, achieving 111 Gold, 77 Silver and 48 Bronze certificates.
Marcus Li, Tianyi Shan (both Year 7) and Jinashou Mei (Year 8) scored full marks and 76 pupils qualified for the Kangaroo follow-on round, in which Hanrong Zeng (Year 8) claimed a 100% score.
Teacher makes a mark at international olympiad
Combining numerical knowledge with a talent for translation was the sum total of Perse maths teacher Vesna Kadelburg’s key role at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in Norway.
Dr Kadelburg had the tough assignment of being a marker/co-ordinator at this year’s IMO in Oslo.
She was invited to be part of the 70-plus marking/co-ordination panel due to her involvement with the UK Mathematics Trust in national team training and selection for almost 20 years. She has also been leader or deputy leader of UK teams at several international competitions.
Her role included helping develop a marking scheme for the problems on the test papers, as well as trying to decipher explanations for answers from a variety of languages, including Mandarin and Arabic!
