Our Maths Champs Represent Australia

By Communications Manager Mick Bunworth

Four Radford students are representing Australia in an international real-life maths challenge.

Year 12 students Ryan Stocks, Brianna Wiseman, Emily Li and Stone Sima entered the International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IM2C) with the help of maths teacher Kym Palfreman.

IM2C is a mathematical modelling competition where teams visualise, understand and apply mathematics to develop an original mathematical model that solves a common problem.

The Australia leg of the competition was coordinated by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), with teams from 163 schools entering their mathematical model for assessment.

Twelve schools made it to the Australian final with two - Radford and Baulkham Hills High School in Sydney’s north-east – given a Meritorious Achievement award, the highest category in 2018.

The two schools’ entries will now be judged against 54 team solutions and reports from around the world in the IM2C 2018 international round, to be completed in July.

The ACT was well represented among the Australian round finalists.

Lyneham High School’s Ananya Ravi, Khubaib Qureshi, Celine Choi and Emily Brown worked with team advisor Rajesh Prasad to make it through, as did Marist College’s Tommy Lu who teamed up with Akshat Jain. The pair were advised by Tony Zhang.

Other Australian finalists were:

• Northern Beaches Secondary College, Manly Campus, Sydney
• Brisbane Boys College, Brisbane
• Ballarat Grammar School
• Camberwell Girls Grammar School, Melbourne
• John Monash Science School, Melbourne
• Ringwood Secondary College, Melbourne
• Perth Modern School, Perth

For more information, visit www.immchallenge.org.au

 

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