Junior Maths Challenge Results

Congratulations again to everyone of the 130 students that took part in last month’s Junior Maths Challenge.  Congratulations also to the many people who had a go at some of the questions though this blog.  The questions are still there so if you want to see how you would do on some of these challenging questions aimed at year 7 and 8 you still can!

The results came in last week, and so here are our most notable individual results...

Best In School: - Joe Packer (Year 8 Lansdown), who achieved a Gold award.

Also in Year 8, Gold certificates go to Megan Luschover (Shelbourne) and Mitchell Perrett (Lansdown).

Silver certificates in Year 8 go to Will Baguley (Lansdown), Oliver Bashford (Shelbourne), and Caleb Golding (Fitzmaurice).

Bronze certificates in year 8 go to ... 

Tom	Dean		Shelbourne
Jacob	Hurst		Fitzmaurice
Ned	Fellenor		Shelbourne
Katie	Reed		Lansdown
Emily	Bradfield		Fitzmaurice
Eloise	Holmes		Fitzmaurice
Harvey	Austin		Kerry
Tia	Reeves		Kerry
Charlotte	Davies		Shelbourne
Jack	Warren		Lansdown
George	Bowman		Kerry
Olivia	Cooper		Shelbourne
Emma	Reed		Lansdown
Callum	Glen		Lansdown

In Year 7 Jack Broadhead (Fitzmaurice) won best in year, and a silver certificate.  Rhys Brennan (Lansdown), and Harley House (Fitzmaurice) also achieved Silvers.  

Bronze certificates go to

Molly	Boswell	Shelbourne
Jesse	Bryant	Lansdown

As well as the individual successes above, this is a house competition, with every single student contributing to house points.  Here are the overall house scores.

Congratulations all around!

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!