We have been experiencing an exponential rise in Trinity ‘Mathletes’ – talented Maths students competing in the UKMT’s various challenges – and the latest results are in. Well done to all students who took part, especially our female students who competed in our very first Mathematical Olympiad for Girls.
Senior Maths Challenge
This year, 178 students took part in the UKMT Senior Maths Challenge (compared to last year’s 91). This is a 90-minute first round challenge with 25 multiple choice questions designed to make students think.
In every Senior Maths Challenges, the UKMT awards the top-scoring 66% of participants with Bronze, Silver and Gold certificates in the ratio 3:2:1.
Congratulations to all students who took part, we had a great set of results with 31 Gold, 54 Silver and 61 Bronze Awards. Our youngest participant, Naku Debebe in the Fourth Year achieved the best result in the school and qualifies for the British Mathematical Olympiad, a 3.5-hour challenge.
The 30 students who achieved Gold also qualify for the Senior Kangaroo challenge; a 60-minute competition open to UK students only. Congratulations to Upper Sixth student Catherine Lanaspre, Lower Sixth student Andrew Pavalarajancroos and Fifth Year Liam Latuszek who all achieved the best results in their year groups.
Mathematical Olympiad for Girls
We also received the long-awaited results from the Mathematical Olympiad for Girls (MOG), the first time the UKMT event has been run at Trinity. Sixteen of our Sixth Form girls took part in the event, with really pleasing results across both year groups.
Congratulations to Upper Sixth Yolanda Han who achieved the only Distinction and Best in School award. Lower Sixth student Meg Bridges achieved Best in Year and a Merit award.
Mr Patel, Teacher of Mathematics who leads our participation in UKMT challenges, said, “We’re really pleased with the results across both challenges, and with the high number of students participating. The results pf the MOG show we have some exceptional female mathematicians (mathletes!) at Trinity too as this was not an easy Olympiad, demonstrated by the 16+ and 26+ boundaries for Merit and Distinction awards respectively. We’re really pleased with the enthusiasm from the students: it looks like the UKMT MOG is here to stay.”
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