Congratulations to everybody who got involved in Numeracy week, it was great to see so many participating. A special thanks to Echuca Paramount Cinemas and McDonald’s in Echuca for donating prizes.
Major prizes winners were: Movie Passes:
Suduko Competition, Todd C who completed the competition in 2 min 38 sec.
Amazing Race, Melissa S and Stephanie S
Timetables Competition, Kiah P with an amazing effort of 61 question correct answers in a minute.|
There were 5 Daily questions on the Bulletin and winners won a McDonald’s voucher.
They were; Emma D, Bowen S, Jacky D, Emma & Toryn and Melissa S
On the right is the Sudoku that Todd solved, click on it to see a larger copy. Can you beat his time. Perhaps you would like to try and beat Kiah’s record for the timetables, good luck because I think you will need it! Links are given in the post below.
During numeracy week the Maths Department will be organising many fun mathematical activities. There will be great prizes including movies tickets from Echuca Paramount Cinemas & Vouchers from McDonalds in Echuca. So much sure you get involved. The activities will be many held during lunchtime and they included:
Sudoku Challenge, can you be the quickest to solve the puzzle. There’s a link to endless Sudoku puzzles for you to start practicing on line. Last year’s winner solved the puzzle to the right in just under 5 minutes. How quick can you do it.
Monday Lunchtime in Room 4
Amazing Race —Based on the TV show, students in teams of 2, will race around the school solving questions and problems to get the next clue. One part of the race is to complete a slider, click here to practice.
Wednesday Lunchtime in Room 12
Timetables Competition, open to all years to find the grandmaster timestabler! It’s done online, so click here to start practicing now. The correcting setting for the competetion are show on the right.
Thursday Lunchtime in Room 12
Maths Trivia Questions, watch the bulletin during the week and submit your answers to Mr. Young
Everyday during Numeracy week
Did you see the Lunar Eclipse that happen on Tuesday 28th August around 8.40pm. It is caused when the moon passes through the shadow from the earth.
There is a lot of mathematics is calculating when and why these eclipses occur. For more information check out the ABC’s Science website or for some high powered maths on eclipses click here
Numercy week is coming…
First week in September, more info later, so please check back!
A new club has formed for students interested in playing simple, yet difficult to master games on the internet. Most of these game will have some mathematical benefit. So if you want to try click on the link below. Watch out they can be addictive.
www.rochsec.vic.edu.au/gamers
Australian Mathematics Competition
Wednesday 25th of July 2007
Year 11 is on Monday 3oth of July (due to work experience)
Copies of the 2004 papers can be download here
Junior (Yr 7&8) Intermediate (Yr 9&10) Senior (Yr 11&12)
Worked solutions from the itute.com website can be download here
JuniorSoln IntermediateSoln SeniorSoln
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