{"id":3280,"date":"2022-12-14T22:44:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T22:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/?post_type=article&#038;p=3280"},"modified":"2022-12-14T22:44:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T22:44:03","slug":"mathematics-achievements","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/article\/mathematics-achievements\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematics Achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just before the end of Term 4, we acknowledged over 40 students who received a Distinction or High Distinction in either the Australian Maths Competition (AMC), Maths Challenge or Maths Enrichment Program.<\/p>\n<p>The AMC is Australia\u2019s largest maths competition, with hundreds of thousands of students across the country taking part. The 30-problem paper demonstrates the importance and relevance of maths in everyday lives. MLC School students received outstanding results in this year\u2019s competition, with extra congratulations going to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jocelyn Su<\/strong>\u00a0(Year 8) \u2013 High Distinction<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nitya Nimalan<\/strong>\u00a0(Year 10) \u2013 HIgh Distinction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Maths Challenge was a four week competition run by the Australian Maths Trust where students worked independently to complete a set of six complex problems. Both:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Haegan Sitou<\/strong>\u00a0(Year 9)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nitya Nimalan<\/strong>\u00a0(Year 10)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>were awarded High Distinctions for their sophisticated and logical entries \u2013 well done girls!<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the year the\u00a0<i>Mathsketeers<\/i>\u00a0have been working hard to complete the Maths Enrichment Program. Students were introduced to challenging concepts such as Number Theory, Combinatorics, the Euclidean Algorithm and Sequences &amp; Series, and were then tasked with independently solving a problem related to each concept. The students showed great dedication to completing the program and are to be commended on their resilience and enthusiasm! Congratulations to all that participated, and special mention to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Carina Chu<\/strong>\u00a0(Year 8) \u2013 Distinction<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sophia Hu<\/strong>\u00a0(Year 8) \u2013 Distinction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, a big congratulations to ALL students who took part in a Maths competition this year. We had more than 250 entries across the Senior School in the various competitions, and it\u2019s exciting to see student interest and participation in Maths growing. Please keep an eye out for future newsletter announcements about 2023 opportunities!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:aschroder@mlcsyd.nsw.edu.au\"><em><strong>\u2013 Alex Schroder<\/strong><\/em><\/a><br \/>\nTeacher \u2013 Mathematics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before the end of Term 4, we acknowledged over 40 students who received a Distinction or High Distinction in either the Australian Maths Competition (AMC), Maths Challenge or Maths Enrichment Program. The AMC is Australia\u2019s largest maths competition, with hundreds of thousands of students across the country taking part. The 30-problem paper demonstrates the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[7],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-3280","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-old-girls-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}