Mathematics Department Year 7&8 Maths Club Year 7&8 maths club has been running this term on a Tuesday from 3-4pm. The club is designed to give students the opportunity to take part in a variety of puzzles and strategy games for problem solving and logical thinking, with some tricks to impress family and friends. Some activities are computer based, some pencil and paper and some are hands-on. Around twenty students have been coming along and they are encouraged to take their experiences home and share them with family and friends! Thank you to Ollie Bampton, Katie Bartlett, Daisy Bressington and Jose Ojeda Leo for sharing their experience and some of the activities from Team Maths Challenge with the rest of the maths club members.
UKMT Maths Challenges On Thursday 3rd February all students from 9A0 and two students from year 10AO took part in the United Kingdom Maths Intermediate Maths Challenge, a competition run by Leeds University. The top 40% of students nationally are awarded certificates so big congratulations go to Justin Auger who received gold and best in school, Leah Donnarumma and Joe Smith who received silver and Amy Gardiner, Ellen Cole, Daniel Tuley, Ashleigh Ings, Grace Mcpherson, Ella Veal, Katie Eldridge, Christopher Smith, Ashleigh Mathieson and Jessica Christian who all received bronze certificates. Justin Auger is also to be congratulated for going through to the next stage of the competition, known as the UKMT Olympiad, for which we are awaiting results. th
On Tuesday 15 February Katie Bartlett, Daisy Bressington, Jose Ojeda Leo and Ollie Bampton were our representatives at the UKMT Team Maths Challenge, taking part in the regional finals at Lord Wandsworth College, Hook. During this day teams work to solve questions of varying type and difficulty and develop their teamwork skills through this. A big well done goes to the students, for preparing for the challenge in their lunch break and after college and for participating so enthusiastically on the day. They all received certificates of participation. th
On Friday 6 May some students in years 7 and 8 will be taking part in the Junior Maths Challenge. We will let you know how they do!
Year 11 Exam Preparation Building on our October half term revision for the November GCSE and the encouraging results from this exam, we continue to support our year 11 students with their preparation for the summer examination season. Revision sessions take place after college, materials and links are on the VLE and there will be May half term revision days. Please contact the department via email if you would like further information. The Maths Team
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