Maths Challenge

2020-2021

think what if my parents had been like this, as they’re in India. It’s a little way of giving back to society.”

Mr and Mrs Hill’s daughter Stephanie said: “They’ve been delivering the paper but when lockdown started they said if there was anything else they can do and since then they’ve been beyond kind for them. They have brought groceries every day, they’ve delivered the paper every day and have even gone to different grocery stores if their wholesaler couldn’t get something but more than that they’ve been a fabulous ally for me as I live in Bath.”

Stephanie added: “They have been the kindest. On mum’s birthday they delivered some flowers from the whole team.

She broke her wrist so when she came out of hospital they delivered some then too. Mum feels loved, she feels valued, she feels that she has somebody who truly cares in addition to her family. She cannot say enough.”

“In a world where we’re finding all sorts of horrors it’s so important to say thank you to the people who are being beautiful.”"

Article by Jordan Reynolds, Senior reporter at the Express & Star

With the progress in technology and the arrival of a pandemic, the UKMT this year modified the Maths Challenges to be completed online. We were given more flexibility on when to run these events and, in turn, were able to offer the competitions to more students.

We began, as ever, in November 2020 with the Senior Maths Challenge for our sixth form Mathematicians. The students achieved ten Bronze, two Silver and two Gold. Our Gold certificate winners, Brandon Taylor and Oliver Andreae, also qualified for the Senior Kangaroo.

At the beginning of February 2021, it was the turn of students in Years 9 to 11 to take part in the Intermediate Maths Challenge. There were 29 Bronze, 20 Silver and one Gold, of which ten Year 9 students qualified for the Grey Kangaroo (Year 9 only) and Vishwas Kumar in Year 11 qualified for the Pink Kangaroo (for Year 10 and 11). Vishwas’ score of 90 earned him a Merit, which is an excellent achievement.

Finally, at the end of April, Year 7, 8 and Dr Bradley’s Year 6 Maths set took part in the Junior Maths Challenge. Between them there were 31 Bronze, 12 Silver and 11 Gold certificates. Ten students out of Year 7 and 8 qualified for the Junior Kangaroo. Bernard Oakes, now in Year 9 and pictured above, was our first qualifier for the Junior Olympiad in several years. This is only open to the top 1,000 students in the Junior Maths Challenge, and we are very proud of him for achieving a merit.