Maths

In observance of International Women’s Day, the maths department ran a poster competition for years 7 to 9. Pupils were tasked with researching a female mathematician and had to create a poster to give information about their life and work. There were many excellent entries and choosing overall winners from each year group was difficult but, in the end, the following winners were announced: Year 7: Lily Thornton for her poster on Katherine Johnson, who, in the 1960s worked on calculating the trajectory of Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 space mission to the moon. Year 8: Ashriya Fernando for her poster on Florence Nightingale who – although mainly famous for her nursing work during the Crimean war was also an excellent mathematician that is credited for inventing a type of pie chart. Year 9: Alice Neilson for her poster on Emillie du Chatalet, a French Mathematician famous for important theorems in calculus.

WELL-GOOD

Pupils in years 7 to 9 took part in a Well-good inter-form competition throughout maths week culminating, appropriately, on World Water Day, March 22nd. Well-good is a website developed by teachers here at Bolton School Girls’ Division. The website rewards pupils’ maths on the website, by funding water projects in the developing world. The more questions that pupils answer, the more sponsorship we can find and the more projects we can fund. Between them, pupils answered an astonishing 180,000 questions, which should help us to find more sponsorship and fund more projects. Currently our most supportive sponsor is the BSGD Parents’ Association but Mr Heppleston is again on the lookout for lots more sponsorship. The Well-good club has been actively fundraising again this year. This included selling cakes and Christmas decorations at the PA bonfire night as well as selling ‘well-goodies’ during the term. Brainstorming in the well-good club led to the launching of @wellgoodwater on Tiktok. Please follow to enjoy our well-good jokes and animations.

UKMT MATHS CHALLENGES

Each year, students from Years 7 to 13 take part in the UKMT Mathematical Challenges. The challenges encourage mathematical reasoning, precision of thought, and fluency in using basic mathematical techniques to solve interesting problems. Gold, Silver or Bronze certificates are awarded to the highest achieving students.

Senior Maths Challenge (Years 12-13): 2 Gold, 7 Silver, 15 Bronze Intermediate Maths Challenge (Year 9-11): 4 Gold, 11 Silver, 17 Bronze Junior Maths Challenge (Years 7-8): 18 Gold, 25 Silver, 55 Bronze

PI DAY COMPETITION

In celebration of World Pi Day on 14th March, the maths and food tech departments ran a competition: the Great BSGD Bake Off 2022, Pi Week.

To be in with a chance of winning some amazing prizes (Amazon vouchers), students had to make a pie with a mathematical theme. There were many entries but it was decided that the winner would be Feryal Mirza, from Year 13, for her Nightingale diagram pie (or Pie-tingale as she called it). This was in honour of the famous nurse and mathematician Florence Nightingale.