Maths competition success

Mount Albert Grammar School’s mathematics students have won a number of prizes in competitions over the past few months.

In the Australian Maths Competition, which thousands of students enter from all over the world, Logan Allomes and Selina Zhang were Prizewinners for coming in the top 0.5%. High Distinction Awards were given to Angus Edwards, Victor Kong, Lucas Peterson, Xander Pritchard, Nikita Privalov and Matthew Somerville.

In the national Casio Senior Maths Competition, five students placed in the top 100 – Sahil Bhatiani, Arique Chowdhury, Miriam Leonhardt, Richard Li and Joshua Norman.

In the Auckland Maths Olympiad in May Richard Li came 4^th overall in the competitive Senior Division.

Organisers of the inaugural Calcex Competition, which was intended for schools in East Auckland, may have regretted allowing MAGS to enter after we won the trophy. Our team of Logan Allomes, Richard Li, Lucas Peterson and James You managed to sneak past St Kentigern College, Pakuranga College and Macleans College in the last minute to come first.

MAGS sent two Year 9 and two Year 10 teams to the Mathex competition in Auckland in August (pictured above left). The Year 9 A team scored 95 points while the B team achieved a perfect score of 100. However, the competition was slightly easier than previous years, and other schools reached 100 quicker! Mathematics teacher Mr Michael Walden said the Junior students thoroughly enjoyed themselves at Mathex, “and special mention must go to the runners, who clocked up a fair number of kilometres over the 30 minute period”.