FOUR OF THE FINEST, ON FORM!

The Team
Pictured above are four of the Sixth Form College’s finest mathematicians: Rachel Bowers, Alex Bramham, David Hibbitts and Matthew Conroy.

On Wednesday 18th November, they all put their heads together to compete in the UKMT Senior Maths Challenge held at Keele University.

The team competed against the most elite Mathematicians from thirteen schools including: Shrewsbury School, South Cheshire College, King’s Macclesfield and Altrincham Grammar School for Boys.

The Competition
The competition consisted of three rounds:
1) A group round with ten problems to solve.
2) A cross number round (pictured left) where one pair work on the across clues and the other pair work on the down clues.
3) A relay round where one pair works on a question, the answer is passed to the second pair who use it to solve their problem and then pass their answer back until they complete all of the problems.

A Proud Teacher
Richard Collins, Course Leader for level 3 Maths, took the students to Keele University. He said:

“The team representing the Sixth Form College was made up of two of our AS students and two A2 students, this gave us a mix of knowledge and specialisms.
The calibre of students at this year’s event was extremely impressive, our team performed really well especially considering the strong competition they faced. They came an extremely commendable fifth in the competition. Congratulations to all four of them!”

Matthew Conroy, formerly of St Peter’s High School is studying A2 Further Maths at the College. He said:
“The competition was quite a fun experience. It was good working together in a team to compete against students who are studying the same course as us at other schools and colleges. I think being placed 5th was quite good out of 13, we definitely worked hard to solve the problems and there is room for improvement next year!!.”

Rachel Bowers, formerly of Endon High School said: “It was great seeing so many people our age getting involved in the subject and working together to solve obscure problems.”