Mathematicians Scoop Scores Of UKMT Challenge Awards

Fantastic results have come through to the School this week for this year's UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge.

A total of 57 pupils sat the paper; impressively, over half of our entrants achieved certificates (53%) compared to the national average of 40%. The UKMT Individual Maths Challenges are lively, intriguing multiple choice question papers, which are designed to stimulate interest in Maths. The three levels cover the secondary school range and they attract over 600,000 entries from over 4,000 schools and colleges each year. An example of an early question in this years IMC is: ‘How many squares have 7 as their units digit?’ Particular congratulations go to Jinyuan Zhang and Emma Walker who have been invited to participate in the follow on ‘Kangaroo’ round in March. The following awards were achieved by pupils at King's:

Gold awarded to:

• Jinyuan Zhang
• Emma Walker

Silver awarded to:

• Samuel Innes
• Callum Mc Farlane
• Sam Houldsworth
• Freda Xiao
• Gabriel Rampton
• Hamish Sanford
• Alex Baxter
• Charlie Wildman
• Michael Hsu

Bronze awarded to:

• Sam Houldsworth
• Lluis Montalat
• Cosmo Williams
• Ann Ge
• Poppy Boyden
• Guy Melamed
• Jacob Ide
• Hector McAfee
• Joe Morrison
• Mani Kher
• James Wylie
• Rian Upton
• Archie Waterfield
• Michael Harvey
• Theo Morgan
• Jake Tadhunter
• Giovanna Custodia
• Hariet Tuson
• Aidan McFarlane
• Frederick Goggs

Laurie Phippard - Head of Maths