Mathematics

Mathematics Challenges We entered more than 150 pupils into individual Maths Challenges this year and, again, more than 55% received a Gold, Silver or Bronze certificate. Unfortunately, due to Covid-19 the Junior Maths Challenge was delayed and has now been completed online and we await the results.

Once again Churcher’s hosted the Junior Maths Challenge and we were delighted to welcome 24 different schools to compete against each other. The day was a huge success! Student Work During lockdown, our pupils were very busy learning many new areas of Maths and the move to remote learning certainly did not put a stop to their progress. Though our Fifth Years had finished their IGCSE course, many were very busy either consolidating work, problem solving or using their Maths skills to be creative. Using Desmos, a great graphing package, some pupils have created fantastic and very complicated pieces of artwork using only equations of graphs.

Mrs T Greenaway

Part of the ‘Angry Bird’ collection created by Lily Bradbury and Flo Ashworth.

In geometry, the spiral of Theodorus (also called square root spiral, Einstein spiral or Pythagorean spiral) is a spiral composed of right triangles, placed edge to edge. It was named after Theodorus of Cyrene.

Problem solving by Seb Browing and Zac Franklin

The Taj Mahal by George Feeney This took 500 separate graphs to create.

Tom Jackson Problem Solving:

BB8 by Isabelle Whittle. This also has some animated parts. It is split into many separate sections such as the head and eyes, etc. Each section needs many curves to create it.