Australian Mathematics Competition

Despite the challenges of remote learning and the demands of onscreen time, MLC School students once again showed their tenacity with 134 girls taking the opportunity to compete in Australia’s oldest Mathematics competition, the Australian Mathematics Competition. I am pleased to announce that 91 of our students achieved a Credit, Distinction or High Distinction award. Notable mention goes to Nitya Nimalan in Year 8, our Best in School and High Distinction Award recipient, placing her in the top 3% of the Junior Division.

The following students received Distinction awards:

Year 7 – Allegra Chiang, Kathleen Chrun, Jaslina Duong, Anna Obaid, Elena Sun, Isabella Zhou
Year 8 – Misha Behi, Sarinna Cai, Claire Lee, Anisha Miah, Anita Mohanan, Aiesha Sivaranjan, Annaliese Yan
Year 9 – Cara Britton, Fiona Feng
Year 10 – Erica Chou, Chloe Jing
Year 11 – Alicia Ding, Sarah Pearson

Four Year 9 students also braved the Australian Intermediate Mathematics Olympiad, a four-hour examination attracting 1600 talented Mathematics students from Years 9 – 10 across Australia. Cara Britton and Fiona Feng both received Credit Awards in this gruelling examination.

Opportunities such as the Australian Mathematics competition, the Mathematics Challenge and Enrichment programs give our students exposure to Mathematics outside the classroom and a taste of the work mathematicians in university and scientific organisations (such as NASA) do daily. We hope that in the future more of our students take up the challenge of these external competitions. This year Tasha Wong from Year 8 was awarded a High Distinction in the Maths Challenge and Nitya Nimalan achieved a Certificate of Distinction.

To further encourage our talented students to pursue the beauty that a problem offers in its complexity and solution, we will be introducing a Mathematics Club in 2022 dedicated purely to solving the seemingly unsolvable and giving the girls the opportunity to immerse themselves in a problem for a sustained period of time. 

– Penny Pachos
Head of Department – Mathematics