On Thursday 15 August three teams of math students from Year 9, 10 and 11 made their way to Hamilton Gardens to compete in the annual WaiMaths Competition, which is organised by the Waikato Math Association.
The competition attracts the brightest math students from schools across the Waikato. Each school can enter three teams in total with each team containing three students. This year, Jordan Wise, Benjamin Wheeler and Daniel Wheeler represented Year 9; Blair Foster, James Krippner and Oliver Soar represented Year 10; and Daniel Davis, Connor Gyde and Hugo Brown represented Year 11.
All teams did well at the event with our Year 9 students placing first against 22 other schools across the Waikato. It was a close finish with the boys taking the lead by one point in the last five seconds. Jordan Wise, Benjamin Wheeler and Daniel Wheeler were awarded with brand new graphics calculators and the WaiMaths Year 9 shield, which they will hold onto until next year.
Our other two teams performed well also. Daniel Davis, Connor Gyde and Hugo Brown placed third our of 19 teams while Blair Foster, James Krippner and Oliver Soar placed tenth, against 20 other schools.
Congratulations to all of our students who were involved in the competition. Outstanding results all-round.
