{"id":13430,"date":"2025-05-14T10:28:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T00:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/?post_type=article&p=13430"},"modified":"2025-05-14T13:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T03:34:06","slug":"get-ready-for-the-arithmetic-olympics","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/article\/get-ready-for-the-arithmetic-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Get ready for the Arithmetic Olympics!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This engaging program will see students in Years 7, 8, and 9 Standard classes participate in a series of quick arithmetic challenges designed to supercharge your mental computation skills. Imagine a mental workout that helps you become faster and more accurate with numbers!<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the next 4-6 weeks (starting in Week 3 and running until Week 7), maths teachers will lead a different arithmetic activity in the first 5-10 minutes of selected lessons. These challenges are designed to be quick, engaging, and to help students develop those crucial mental maths muscles.<\/span><\/p>\n

As students participate in the challenges, their teachers will be keeping an eye out for students who demonstrate strong mental arithmetic skills and a great attitude. By the end of Week 7, each participating class will nominate one student to be their <\/span>Arithmetic Olympics Class Champion!<\/b><\/p>\n

The excitement culminates in Week 8, where all the nominated Class Champions will come together in Maths Club for the ultimate <\/span>Arithmetic Olympics Final Challenge!<\/b> This will be a fantastic opportunity for students to showcase their mental maths prowess and compete against the best in their year groups.<\/span><\/p>\n

We encourage all students in Years 7, 8, and 9 Standard to fully participate in the Arithmetic Olympics and see how much you can achieve! Good luck to everyone, and may the best mental calculators win!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Miss Daniela Menga, Assistant Mathematics Coordinator<\/em><\/i><\/div>\n
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This engaging program will see students in Years 7, 8, and 9 Standard classes participate in a series of quick arithmetic challenges designed to supercharge your mental computation skills. Imagine a mental workout that helps you become faster and more accurate with numbers! Over the next 4-6 weeks (starting in Week 3 and running until […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[7],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-13430","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_category-around-the-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/13430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=13430"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=13430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}