Math Contest Winners
On Wednesday, February 18, seventy-five eager young Shawnigan mathematicians participated in the Pascal, Cayley, and Fermat math contests. These national contests are for students in grades 9 through 11 and are sponsored, in part, by the University of Waterloo. They involve problem-solving questions that are not directly linked to mathematics curricula in Canada and the questions range from easy to very challenging.
This year, approximately 63,000 students from across the country participated and we had some impressive results with many scores above the 85th percentile-remember that students who participate in these contests typically have some very strong abilities in mathematics. Our highest placed student scored higher than 99.7 % of all students who wrote the test in the Cayley contest. Pictured are the highest scoring students at Shawnigan in each math contest.
– Stephen Cox, Head of Math