Mathematics

MATHEMATICS REPORT

WORDS BY Mrs Kathryn Lee, Head of Maths

Tony Zhao, Top Scorer in Year 7, Junior UKMT

What an extraordinary year! This will definitely be one the boys remember. They have demonstrated such resilience and commitment to their learning. As a department we are so proud of how the boys have remained engaged and driven with their Maths.

UKMT JUNIOR MATHS CHALLENGE

The Junior Mathematical Challenge is a 60-minute, multiple-choice competition aimed at students across the UK.

It encourages mathematical reasoning, precision of thought, and fluency in using basic mathematical techniques to solve interesting problems.

The problems on the Junior Mathematical Challenge are designed to make students think. Most are accessible, yet still challenge those with more experience.

All boys from Year 8 and 40 boys from Year 7 were entered into the UKMT Junior Challenge. It was the first time we had competed online but the boys took it in their stride. They completed 25 multiple choice questions with either 5 or 6 marks allocated for correct answers. This year no points were deducted for incorrect responses. Over 270 000 pupils from across the UK sat the Junior Maths Challenge. Gold, silver and bronze certificates are awarded to 40% of participants nationally. Roughly the top 6% receive gold, the next 13% silver and the next 21% bronze. Approximately 10 000 of the top students are invited to sit a follow-on competition, the Junior Mathematical Olympiad (top 2000) or Kangaroo.

In Year 7, seven Silver Awards and nine Bronze Awards were given. Tony Zhao was the highest scorer from Year 7. Excellent work Tony!

SILVER AWARDS BRONZE AWARDS Tony Zhao Jack Sivills Emir Kenrick Blake Balachandran Rocco Sarro Aryan Sohanpal Rhys Brook Sam Yeomans Thomas Mahony Joshua Lincoln Mihai Memet Nirmay Patel Henry Pask George Knight Arafat Rahman Charlie Gandesha

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YEAR 8

In Year 8, seven Gold Awards, sixteen Silver Awards and twenty-one Bronze Awards were achieved. A special mention goes to Jacob Yau (top scorer in Year 8) and Samuel McMurran who were invited to sit a further Olympiad Paper (the top 2000 in the country are invited). Also, congratulations go to Eden Chen, Sammy Inman, Gary Wang, Rayhaan Menolee and Felix Beckmann who qualified for the Kangaroo Paper (around 10,000 are invited). Well done to all boys who entered. GOLD AWARDS SILVER AWARDS BRONZE AWARDS Gold Awards Silver Awards Bronze Awards Jacob Yau Sam Barnes Jacob Anderson Samuel McMurran Ben Pickering Joseph Edwards Eden Chen Joseph Lee Isaac Battersby Sammy Inman Fraser Morgan Theo Cromwell Gary Wang Ben Rioch Mustafa Haroon Rayhaan Menolee Izaan Aris James Pinkney Felix Beckmann Joe Basquille Bertie Sayer Dylan French Danny Chapman Josh Mitchell Toby Wesson Ben Ulvert Luka Ilic Jonathan Hall David Shirley Nigel Ng James Wright Abuturab Turrabi Charlie Collard Eeshan Agrawal Mike Halahan Henry Whitfield Aadhi Arun Harry Wood-Rubio Benjamin Roberts Harry Townsend Tommy Hughes Henry Gillham Misha Savitski Joell Creek

Y8 Medal Winners, Junior UKMT

Jacob Yau and Sam McMurran, Y8 Junior UKMT Olympiads

Year 7 Medal Winners, Junior UKMT

YEAR 8 POST EXAM PROGRAMME

As part of their Post Exam Programme, the Year 8 boys embarked on a series of Financial Maths Life Skills during their Maths lessons.

The aim of these lessons was to help students understand money habits, different types of bank cards, interest rates, (both simple and compound), and how to plan for future purchases.

By the end of the term, boys were able to reflect on their own attitude to money and spending, were aware of the different types of bank cards available, could interpret a pay slip and could calculate interest rates on loans and mortgages.

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YEAR 5-8 ENRICHMENT FUN

After completing their internal exams, our boys were ready for some post-exam, fun maths team challenges. Stepping out of their usual classrooms and into the sun, the boys collaborated on a whole range of team challenges outdoors, enjoying higher-level problem solving, trying out different strategies and adapting their methods to attack problems from different angles. The boys enjoyed many different activities throughout the week, from cross number challenges to a relay event. They needed to harness their Future Skills to think outside the box and alter their methods to find the solution and get it right—which was not always possible the first time. Throughout the week, the boys displayed excellent collaboration and resilience when facing more challenging maths.

One Year 8 boy, speaking about the relay activity, in which you were not able to talk to half your teammates as you tried to solve the problems, told us, “It was really exciting, like an escape room. You were working as a team, but you didn’t know how the other half of your team were doing as we weren’t allowed to talk to them.”

YEAR 3 & 4

CURIOUS MATHEMATICIANS CLUB

The Summer Term saw a good number of boys attend the Year 6 Curious Mathematicians Club. Here, boys were able to work on a variety of mathematical problems and puzzles that challenged their thinking and gave them the opportunity to explore and investigate their ideas. Presented with challenges from Cambridge University’s Nrich Maths Project, the attendees were able to develop their natural mathematical curiosity and were encouraged to ask good mathematical questions. Their excitement was sparked by the weekly challenges, which included puzzles such as: n In a field, each cow can see twice as many sheep as cows; each sheep can see the same number of sheep as cows, so how many cows and sheep are there? n A cake on a plate cost £1.10. The Cake costs £1.00 more than the plate. How much does the plate cost? (It’s not 10p!). Good mathematicians are curious, resourceful, collaborative and resilient; and all these important characteristics were put to the test during this Maths Club.

THE FOLLOWING Y3 AND 4 BOYS RECEIVED A BRONZE AWARD THE FOLLOWING Y3 AND 4 BOYS RECEIVED A SILVER AWARD

A SPECIAL MENTION SHOULD GO TO THE BOYS WHO GAINED A GOLD

It has been such a privilege to witness the hard work and commitment our young mathematicians have shown this year. It has been excellent to be able to visit the boys to award Maths Commendations for endeavour with the NumBots and TT Rockstars programme and the recent Maths Challenge. I am very excited by the progress these boys have been making and the hard work they are putting in. Keep it up!

FIRST MATHS CHALLENGE All the boys worked extremely hard and I am very excited to see how many budding mathematicians are coming through. n Matt Morgan n Joseph Ram n Charles Suthers n Samuel Chittenden n Major Grewal n Bertie Martin n Jack Nash n Joseph Parsonage n Zachary Caldy n Harry Martin n Jack Efe Taylor n William Wootton n Arvin More n Gabriel Roberts n Prayagh Sunil n Quba Thomas n Stanley Banks n Ashley Bayley n Joseph Hill n James Holt n Oliver Hudson n Rory McDonald n Tristan Price n Samarth Serish n George Steed n James Stockwell n George AllinghamNorris n Benjamin Brading n Aaron Evans n Benedict Long n Pavit Upadhyay n Jacob JemmettGabrys n Aarvyn Rajbans n Rafael Spajic n Wilfred Squire n Arjun Dey n Freddie Gibbs n Meyer MeadleyRoberts n Angelo Rampello n Albert Carvell n Jasper Stone n Arthur Mullaney n James Workman n Thomas Hanbury n Joshua Featherstone n Aaniketh Gusswami n Nayan Pattni n Nico Stewart n Henry Van Rensburg n Dhillon Waterfall n Evan Byrne n Oliver Gibson n Dhan Katechia n Austin Reddy n Benedict Armstrong n Sebastian Bodfield n Xavier Clark n Eben Clarke n Joseph Willard n Gabriel-Joel Holland n Jonathan Pugsley n Noah Campbell n James Clements n Sukhjeevan Gill n Orson Pettengell n Montgomery Pool n Veer Ramani n Georgi Savkov-Lin n George Shirley n Charlie Tillison n Oscar McCartie

n Kuba Kopec (Top Scorer in School) n Ilyas Hosein (Top Scorer in Y4) n Jeremy Dunn

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MANGAHIGH SUCCESSES

Anumber of boys spent a remarkable amount of time this year using MangaHigh to improve their Maths. At the time of writing, the following boys had committed to the programme and gained an impressive number of medals independently over the course of the year. n Charlie Chen 169 medals n Tony Zhao 128 medals n Rayhaan Menolee 121 medals n Nigel Ng 100 medals n Thomas Noble 94 medals n Harry Wood-Rubio 87 medals

YEAR 6 MATHS HOUSE CUP

All of Year 6, in groups of 4 or 5 boys, took part in a Team Challenge event which spanned over four weeks to be crowned the winner of the House Maths Championship. Boys utilised their Future Skills to the full, collaborating, reasoning, justifying and problem solving. The boys enjoyed various challenges including relay and shuttle events outside solving conundrums.

It was great to see the boys so involved and enjoying their Maths.Congratulations to Bunyan who won the Year 6 House Mathematics Trophy for 2021!

DOODLE STARS

YEAR 6 (AWARDED OVER THE TWO YEARS) n Edward Ogborne 16 081 n Ethan Wrightson 13 149 n Amardeep Rai 12 624 n Harry Mullan 11 743 n George Garosi 10 445 n Toby Coles 35 793 n Ben Zanna 26 099 n Berkley Barnicoat 16 296 n Gabriel Borelli 13 426 n Jacob Adedeji 12 683 n Sebastian Warner 11 798 n Thomas Nixon 16 026

DOODLE MATHS SUCCESS

There has been an impressive commitment from Year 5 and 6 this year with the DoodleMaths Programme. Special mention goes to the following boys who have achieved extensive streaks (number of days in a row using the programme). Also, congratulations to the boys who have an outstanding number of stars (awarded for effort). DOODLE STREAK YEAR 5 n Joshua Worboys 292 days n Conor Hayes 292 days n Chris Gentry 291 days n Cayo Sinclair 286 days n Christopher Irving Gamble 285 days n Adam Purdie 175 days n Lucas Hill 138 days

YEAR 6 n Toby Coles 722 days n Ben Zanna 721 days n Nathaniel Fletcher 292 days n Isaac Vincent Emery 148 days n Max Midgley 105 days YEAR 5 (AWARDED OVER ONE YEAR) n George Kotsidis 6 861 n Joshua Worboys 21 335 n Chris Gentry 10 049 n Haris McLynn 7 540 n Cayo Sinclair 10 930 n Connor Hayes 7 786

DOODLEMATHS AMBASSADORS These boys have committed to over 730 days without a day off - TWO WHOLE YEARS!!!! n Toby Coles MATHS COMMENDATIONS n Ben Zanna AWARDED THIS ACADEMIC YEAR:

YEAR 3 Excellent problem solving in the First Maths Challenge n Jeremy Dunn

Commitment to and completion of NumBots n Joseph Parsonage n Guy Jones

YEAR 4 Excellent problem solving in the First Maths Challenge n Ilyas Hosein

YEAR 5 Commitment to DoodleMaths n Joshua Worboys n Christopher Irving Gamble n Chris Gentry n Archie Fleming n Cayo Sinclair n Conor Hayes n Adam Purdie n Lucas Hill

Continued Commitment to Doodle Maths n Joshua Worboys n Conor Hayes n Chris Gentry n Cayo Sinclair n Christopher Irving Gamble

YEAR 6 Commitment to DoodleMaths n Nathaniel Fletcher n Edward Ogborne n Isaac VincentEmery

True Ambassadors of DoodleMaths n Toby Coles n Ben Zanna

Continued Commitment to DoodleMaths n Nathaniel Fletcher n Max Midgley

YEAR 7 Top Scorer in Year 7, UKMT Junior Challenge n Tony Zhao For Commitment to MangaHigh: n Charlie Chen n Tony Zhao n Thomas Noble

YEAR 8 Qualifying for the Kangaroo Challenge: n Eden Chen n Felix Beckmann n Sammy Inman n Gary Wang n Rayhaan Menolee

For Commitment to MangaHigh: n Rayhaan Menolee n Nigel Ng n Harry Wood-Rubio Headmaster Commendation awarded for Maths this year:

YEAR 3 Top Scorer, First Maths Challenge n Kuba Kopec

YEAR 6 336 day streak almost an entire year! n Max Midgley 336 day streak Two years’ daily commitment to DoodleMaths n Toby Coles n Ben Zanna YEAR 8 Qualifying for the Maths Olympiad, Junior UKMT n Jacob Yau n Samuel McMurran

Fuller Mathematics Prizes 2021 Henry Howard Fuller was a member of the Mathematical Staff from 1900 to 1924.

Y3 Evan Byrne Y4 Veer Ramani Y5 Matthew Byrne Y6 Isaac Johnson Y7 Thomas Mahony Y8 Samuel McMurran