Mathematics

Mr David Allen, Eddie Davis (7.2), Eric Van Noord (7.3) and Mr Peter Norman at the 100 Club Morning Tea

Senior School Fiction Winner: Sean Carroll (12.3); Runner-up: Max Thornily (12.5)

Senior School Illustration Winner: Samuel Minniti (11.6)

Senior School Poetry Winner: Kinta Pinchin-Yamada (10.2); Runner-up: Liam Kearle (10.7)

100 CLUB – YEAR 7

An important part of the College’s Middle School reading program is the Year 7 100 Club challenge to encourage solid reading habits in our students. Library sessions are an integral part of the English curriculum at Trinity and we encourage each Year 7 student to set themselves a goal to read as many books as they can in the course of the year. The number of books read equal points earnt and those points translate into prizes. Any student with over 100 points gains entry to the 100 Club and an invitation to morning tea in the Library. Students who surpassed this total are worthy of a special mention: 100 Club Joshua Gomes (7.4), Nicholas Siciliano (7.6), Liam Stojan (7.8), Xander Macdonald (7.2), Maynard Gray (7.4), Cale Boska (7.8), Nadev Mahatalagalage Don (7.6), Luke Matthews (7.7), Oliver Nutt (7.3), Debadipti Sarkar (7.7), Alvarez Dharma (7.3), Matthew Crock (7.1), Harrison Bridgeman (7.3), Harrison Farmer (7.7), Jacob Palmer (7.3), Isaac Parker (7.5), Jack Tanner (7.4), Lennox McGrath (7.6), Alex Kaczmarczyk (7.6), Chi Chi Chen (7.6), Thomas Murray (7.7), Sebastian Kelleher (7.1), William Burrell (7.3), Nicholas Davies (7.6), Isaac Phan (7.7), Declan Armour (7.1), Nam Lam (7.6), Clayton Mott (7.5), Luke Perlini (7.3), Max Riggio (7.5), Ben Cronin (7.6), Daniel Oatham (7.2) and Luca Morelli (7.2)

200 Club Akhil Ambati (7.5), Kundan Dharmapuri (7.1), Llavan Pirabananthan (7.6), William Hall (7.7), Noah Cork (7.8), Sebastian Herrington (7.1), Nicholas Gordon (7.3), Nathan Tobin (7.8), Matt Maine (7.1), Christo Karageorgiou (7.3) and Dylan Darmawan (7.5)

500+ Club Edward Davies (7.2) and Eric Van Noord (7.3)

The 100 Club Morning Tea

least one book from each of the 16 genres in the Trinity College Library: Myles Brown (8.5), Xavier Binning (8.1), Saxon Harbrow (8.6), Gabriel MacFarlane (8. 2) and Luca Martino (8.7).

CHAMPION READERS OF YEAR 9

Year 9 English students are challenged to compete against each other to win prizes for the classes who read the most books. Our outstanding Year 9 readers are: Taylor Hannah (9.8), Sholto Foss (9.7), Callum Lee (9.7), Jensen Yeo (9.8), Benjamin Shah (9.6), Samuel Thorpe (9.7) and Rafael Sitorus (9.8).

VISITING AUTHORS

Western Australian author, A J Betts spent a week at the College talking to all English students from Years 7–12 about writing, her published books, life as an author and what happens when Hollywood gets its teeth into your book! She spoke about her most recently published novel, Hive, which created a bit of a stir and there was also a long list of students who wanted to borrow her latest release.

Ms Alison Mackenzie

Head of Library Services

Students with visiting author, A J Betts TRINITY COLLEGE ANNUAL 2018

This has been a year of consolidation for our mathematics courses. Over the past three years we have adopted the requirements of the new senior WACE courses and the full implementation of the WA version of the National Mathematics Curriculum.

We continue to use the online resource of Mathspace as the primary source of all mathematics from Year 7 to Year 10. All member of the Mathematics Learning Area now use OneNote to produce and deliver all class notes and examples. Students are given a link to these notes so they can be accessed online at any time including when students are absent from school and need to check the day’s work.

The requirements of investigations for assessment have been modified by the School Curriculum and Standards Authority and we have written some new investigations using the new model. The maths staff also spent 24 hours at Camp Kelly writing new assessments for the senior courses and we will also prepare new investigations for Middle School. The new model places a greater emphasis on research.

Camp Kelly was again the venue for both Essential Mathematics two day camps this year. These camps require students to complete an assessment task based on practical mathematics and have proved very successful and popular with the students.

During March, Trinity College was the host school for the WA Mathematical Association’s Have Sum Fun competitions; where we hosted over 30 schools for both the senior competition (Years 11 and 12) and junior competition (Years 7 and 8). While we were unable to secure a win in either competition, the use of Trinity College as a venue was exceptionally well received. Trinity is the only school to host two of these events and I thank members of the Maths staff for their support in hosting these events.

This year we, again, organised a visit from World of Maths. Our Year 7 students were able to experience a wide variety of hands-on problem solving activities to challenge and entertain them. Eight Year 10 students attended the Exploring Engineering at UWA. This gave a great insight into engineering specifically at UWA. Congratulations to Michael Thomas (11.1) who has been selected to attend the Mathematics Summer School at the Australian National University in Canberra during January 2019. This is a unique opportunity and he is one of just seven students chosen from WA. Trinity has had an exceptional history of having students selected to attend this Summer School and all past students have returned very motivated about their future.

Throughout this year we offered our students a wide variety of extra competitions, challenges and activities. These include: Have Sum Fun, Have Sum Fun Online, Australian Mathematics Competition, Australian Mathematics Challenge, Australian Mathematics Olympiad, WA Junior Olympiad, Australian Intermediate Olympiad, Australian Problem Solving Mathematical Olympics and the International Mathematics Modelling Competition.

Mr Geoffrey Jamieson

COMPETITION RESULTS

Australian Intermediate Mathematics Olympiad:

a competition involving just ten questions to be attempted in a four-hour examination with the potential to make the Australian Olympiad team: Declan Ryan (10.1) – Credit Daniel MacRae (9.6) – Credit

Mathematics Problem Solving Olympiad for Year 7

students: a class competition for the top Maths classes with individual performances monitored: Qiyang (Chi Chi) Chen (7.6) – Top 10% Harry Hansen-Knarhoi (7.4) – Top 20%

Have Sum Fun Online – with teams of four students: Daniel MacRae (9.6), Lucas Siciliano (9.7), Benjamin Fels (9.6), Fraser O’Sullivan (9.2) – Year 9 team – First place

Mathematics Challenge for Young Australians: six questions answered over three weeks for top Maths classes only: 9 High Distinctions, 19 Distinctions and 22 Credits.

High Distinctions James Watson (8.2), Jamaan Peters (8.1), Lachlan Moroney (9.8), Anthony Collova (9.1), Jonathan Slater (9.2), Rafael Fiore (10.3), Matthew Bottega (10.2), Sri Krishna (Sri) Dharmapuri (10.4), Riley Mattingley (10.2)

Australian Mathematics Competition: all Year 7 students entered and then restricted to top Maths classes in other year groups: 9 High Distinctions, 71 Distinctions and 145 Credits.

High Distinctions: Nathan Tobin (7.8), Darcy Hoye (8.5), Lucas Siciliano (9.7), Kurt Arthur (9.2), Daniel MacRae (9.6), Matthew Bottega (10.2), Dylan O’Connor (10.5), Daniel Santelli (10.6), Benjamin Jasper (10.5)

Best School Student: Lucas Siciliano (9.7)

Mr Geoff Jamieson Head of Mathematics