College Information & Events
08 August
On Thursday 3 August, 200 Damascus students joined with 500,000 students across Oceania by participating in the Australian Mathematics Competition.
This is organised by the Australian Mathematics Trust and has been running for almost 50 years. (Some of our parents will remember this as the Westpac Maths Competition.)
The competition includes a very small amount of testing of routine skills, and a large amount of genuine problem-solving type questions. That is, problems which at the first reading do not have an obvious or clear method of approach. These increase in difficulty through the paper, with the last questions typically accessible to very few of the participants. It is different to school-based tests or exams where capable students would be expected to have some success in every question.
We congratulate all students for stepping up to this challenge. It takes no small amount of courage and resilience to participate when the work is difficult. We look forward to receiving their results later in the term.
Hamish McCrum
Learning Area Leader, Mathematics