Congratulations to Lucton School Chongqing students who won awards in the 2023 Math Kangaroo competition!
Silver Award: Sylva H
Bronze Award: Daisy H
Math Kangaroo
The largest youth math challenge in the world
Math Kangaroo is proposed by Peter O’Halloran, an Australian mathematician and teacher, in the 1980's. In 1991, this idea was taken up in Paris, France. Very quickly, it spread throughout Europe. The challenge began to be called “Kangaroo” because of its Australian origin.
Hua Luogeng remarked that, “Mathematics is used everywhere including the universe, particles, rockets, the chemical industry, the earth, the biology field, and the daily life.” This shows that mathematics plays a significant role in the development of social science and civilisation. Therefore, it is very important to learn mathematics well, but for some students learning mathematics is boring. In order to stimulate students' interest and confidence in learning mathematics, Math Kangaroo adopts interesting topics that are close to life, without stressing on the difficulty and challenge, so as to cultivate students to gain happiness in rational thinking. In addition, Math Kangaroo also aims to develop students' mathematical thinking and train them to read, understand, analyse and solve problems.
Congratulations to Evan L for winning the Global Distinction Award in the 2023 Computational and Algorithmic Thinking competition!
Computational and Algorithmic Thinking (CAT)
The Computational and Algorithmic Thinking (CAT) competition, organised by the Australian Mathematics Trust (AMT), incorporates unique ‘three-stage tasks’, with questions ranging from easy to difficult, and students need to solve nine questions in one hour.
CAT encourages students to solve a variety of real-world problems and aims to stimulate curiosity, explore students' potential in programming, and promote the development of logical thinking, computational thinking and other modes of thinking, which can help students to become more confident in taking on new challenges. At the same time, a change in mindset can make math learning more interesting.
As university applications are getting increasingly competitive, the individual competitiveness of students is particularly important. Participating in international competitions and achieving excellent results are powerful evidence of a student's academic level and overall quality. Lucton School Chongqing encourages students to participate in international competitions to stimulate their interest and intrinsic motivation and to improve their comprehensive strengths.
