Junior Maths Challenge

Congratulations to the 130 Year 7 and Year 8 students who took part in today's Junior Maths Challenge from the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust (UKMT).

Like the Intermediate Challenge earlier this year, the Junior challenge poses a wide range of questions, designed to test mathematical thinking, rather than simply remembering facts or techniques.

Whilst the challenge is an opportunity for students to shine individually (and we will let you know results as soon as they are in), this is also a House competition, and will contribute towards house points at the end of the year.

All questions are multiple choice, but for the harder questions guessing is very much discouraged by the unusual method of marks being taken away for wrong answers!  It is also entirely non-calculator, and although paper working is allowed (essential), apart from a pencil and rubber no other equipment is allowed.

Headline results will of course be published here and in the newsletter, but until they are here are a few questions from this year's paper to think about...

3.  Which of the following has exactly one factor other than 1 and itself?

     A 6       B 8     C 13     D 19      E 25




7.  A small ink cartridge has enough ink to print 600 pages.  Three small cartridges can print as many as two medium cartridges.  Three medium cartridges can print as many pages as two large cartridges.  How many pages can be printed using a large cartridge?


    A  1200       B 1350      C 1800     D  2400    E 5400

13.  In the multiplication grid on the right the input factors (in the first row and the first column) are all missing and only some of the products within the table have been given.  What is the value of A + B + C + D + E?


   A  132      B 145      C 161     D 178    E 193




20.  Aroon says that he is 50 years, 50 months, 50 weeks and 50 days old.  What age will he be on his next birthday?


   A 56     B  55         C  54          D 53      E 52




25.  The interior angles of a triangle are (5x+3y), (3x+20) and (10y+30), where x and y are positive integers.
What is the value of x+y?


A  15       B 14        C 13      D 12      E 11








If you want to have a go at these, feel free to submit your answers on the form below, and we'll let you know in due course how you've scored!









Good luck!

Year 9 and 10 House Maths

You may remember that some Year 9 and Year 10 did the Intermediate Maths challenge last term.

We have analysed the results, and turned them in to House points, based on the average (Mean) score of each house in each year.

Here are those results.

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Congratulations Shelbourne, and again to all that took part.

Year 7 and 8 will be doing the Junior Maths Challenge on Thursday 26th April!  Good luck to them!

Year 8 PSHEE Stock Exchange

Congratulations to Year 8 for their wonderful efforts on the PSHEE day today.  Points were awarded to teams for two things...

Firstly how well they kept their accounts.  Perfect accuracy meant a score of 200, with 3 points lost for each pound difference between their actual money, and how much their accounts said they should have had!

Secondly was the quality of their presentations, how well they sold their products, again .with a top score of 200.

Here are how the teams did...

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This was also a House competition, and here are the house results...


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Well done to everyone!

Fynamore Y4 & 5

Today I visited Fynamore School, and did my first session with some Year 4 and 5 mathematicians.  I'm looking forward to working with this group once a fortnight.  Here is the problem we worked on today...

Here is our summary of what we did (click to hear what the students are saying)...

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Y7 Challenge Day

Well done to the 8 year sevens who went to St Mary's for a maths challenge day.  Here is what they did...

World Education Games...

The World Education Games are here!  You have all been registered, and you will have your logins and passwords before half term.  Can anyone beat Kayliegh's magnificent 72 questions correct in 60 seconds?  Can we be the highest totalling school in Wiltshire?  Will your tutor group be victorious.

Get Practising now

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Intermediate Maths Challenge

Congratulations to the 100 year 9 and 10 students who took part in the UK Intermediate maths challenge last week.  This is a competition that set challenging problems, and is a national competition.  We don't know results yet; they get set off to the UK Maths Trust, but when they do we will let you know who excelled, although all that took part from year 10 maths set 1, and year 9 sets 1 and 2 should be congratulated for their effort in what is a very exacting competition.  Questions are multiple choice, but losing marks for wrongs answers soon discourages you from merely guessing, and don't forget, no calculators!

Example questions from this year are...

9.
Auntie Fi's dog Itchy has a million fleas.  His anti-flea shampoo claims to leave no more than 1% of the original number of fleas after use.  What is the least number of fleas that will be eradicated by the treatment?
A: 900000              B: 990000        C: 999000         D:999990          E: 999999


17.
The first term of a sequence of positive integers is 6.  The other terms in the sequence follow these rules:

• if a term is even then divide it by 2 to get the next term;
• if a term is odd then multiply by 5 and subtract 1 to get the next term.

For which value of n is the nth term equal to n?

A: 10 only               B: 13 only         C: 16 only            D: 10 and 13 only         E: 13 and 16 only

20.
A rectangle with are 125 cm2 has sides in the ratio 4:5. What is the perimeter of the rectangle?
A: 18cm         B: 22.5 cm           C: 36cm            D: 45cm           E: 54 cm

Feel free to offer your answers in a comment below!