10-year-old boy comes 4th in global maths competition
A YEAR 6 pupil has been ranked fourth globally and second in England in a world maths challenge.
Ore Oni, along with the rest of his class who came first in the country and third globally in the competition, has received praise for his mathematical prowess.
The 10-year-old who attends the Bronte School in
Gravesend, and his fellow pupils beat nearly 1.9 million competitors from 150 schools worldwide as part of the annual Mathletics Challenge – a global event which sees schools go head-to-head in maths quizzes to mark World Maths Day on May 5.
Pupils took part in 20 rounds of number-based questions before having to answer as many sums as possible in 60 seconds.
A five-year-old star from Watford has been crowned ‘top mathlete’ after winning her category of a global competition. Gold medal winner Elsa from Cassiobury Infant and Nursery School, Watford, scooped the award in the UK Reception category of the World Maths Day challenge. Elsa and her classmates competed with more than one million students from 17,000 schools. The gold medal winner said: “I really love maths and love winning points, it’s so exciting!” Event organiser Graham Frickers from 3P Learning, the creators of the Mathletics platform on which the global challenge is hosted, said: “The response to this year’s competition has been incredible – there is a global buzz about maths.
UK year 4 Mathletics winner, nine-year-old Rayan, from Alperton
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A nine-year-old Alperton schoolboy has been crowned top mathlete in the UK in his age group.
Gold medal winner Rayan, a pupil at Vicars Green Primary School, in Lily Gardens, was victorious in the World Maths Day challenge organised by 3P Learning.
More than one million students from 17,000 schools across 200 countries participated.
Rayan pitted his wits and tested his mathematical prowess against his peers while participating in activities designed to highlight the wonder of numbers and make maths fun.
“I really love maths,” said Rayan. “I had no idea I was going to win anything at the beginning. I was low on the leader board but after each challenge I placed higher and higher. It was so exciting.”
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5 quirky study areas of maths
Our favourite ‘ologies’ for World Maths day.
The path of a double pendulum, a common topic of Chaos Theory. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Mathematics is massive area of study – from statistics, to probability, to chaos. It’s a wide world, which means there are also some odd jobs and areas of study that fly under the big umbrella of numbers.
In celebration of World Maths Day, here are some of the quirky areas of maths that astound us.
Googology
Googology is the study of the number googol (1.0 × 10
100), or study of very large numbers. A googologist might help name really big numbers, and they get to apply a lot of creativity to naming things. By way of example, take a look at Wompogulus and Meameamealokkapoowa oompa.