B MATHEMATICS COMPETITION SUCCESS It has been a busy term for our mathematicians, with a number of them achieving great success in national and international competitions. Avondale College participated in the Auckland-wide Aurecon Bridge Building competition for the fifth time this year, with students coming up with some creative designs that were then tested to breaking pont! Our Year 10 group of Arc Porcioncula, Tommy Ong and Rohan Sharma (pictured below) won the award for the best digital design.
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Sixty-three students from Year 9 to Year 11 participated in the University of Otago Junior Mathematics Competition, which is one of the most influential mathematics competitions in New Zealand. Twenty-seven of our students received Merit awards or above. Our top result was Top 30 in the country, (JooYeon (Julie) Jeong). This is the most students we have had awarded top 200 or above in this event in the past five years. Two teams at each Year 9 and Year 10 were selected to participate in the Auckland Mathex Competition run by the Auckland Mathematics Association on 23 August. Our four teams achieved at a very high level: our top Year 9 team placed 5th, and the other teams also achieved high scores. They all made Avondale proud! This year about 60 students signed up to do the Australian Mathematics Competition organised by the University of South Wales in Australia. Congratulations to Ryan Moore who was awarded High Distinction after achieving in the 99th percentile. Fourteen students were awarded Distinctions at Junior level. Five students were awarded Distinction at Intermediate level and two awarded Distinction at Senior level. Congratulations to all who have done so well in these competitions! (For a list, please see page 4.)
TERM 3 WEEK 6 30 August 2017
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Mrs Kiely Murphy mhy@avcol.school.nz
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