Students excel in Senior Mathematics Challenge
Posted on Thursday 15 December 2011
64 students gain certificates
On Tuesday 8th November a remarkable 112 students from the College sat the UKMT Senior Maths challenge. This is a national competition and students volunteered to sit a 90 minute test just for the challenge of competing against other mathematics students across the country.
The results were excellent with 64 of them being awarded certificates: 8 gold, 23 silver and 33 bronze.
Particularly outstanding performances were by Jason Clarke, Paul Rusen and Chris Hampson (who also won the best in school certificate) who all qualified for the British Maths Olympiad round 1. Rebecca Angwin also did exceptionally well in qualifying for the Senior Kangaroo follow on round. Sean Devlin led the way in year 12 earning high silver.
Wesley Briscoe, the Mathematics teacher who organised the running of the competition, said “We are delighted so many students volunteered to take part and the results are testament to the high calibre of the mathematical ability of our students”.
