The Further Maths
Support Programme Year 10 Maths Feast
2015
The Downs School,
Compton Monday 23rd March
2015
For 2015 this team event consisted of six rounds, with no
overall winner announced, rather certificates awarded for winning a round.
The rounds were named after the courses of a meal, namely an
‘Amuse-bouche’ (a matching activity in three parts); an ‘Hors d’oeuvre’
(comparisons – calculating which result of a pair of calculations is the
larger, or whether they are equal); an ‘Entrée’ (a new area of mathematics to
read about then answer questions on); a ‘Main’ (a selection of problems to
solve, with particular emphasis in the mark scheme on clear explanation of
method); a ‘Dessert’ (making and stacking Columbus cubes); and finally ‘Petit-Fours’
(a series of questions with the answer to each one needed for the following
question, with the team splitting into pairs, and bonus marks awarded for
correct answers in a row). No artificial devices, such as calculators, were
allowed, so the teams had to use their grey cells to the full!
Sixteen teams of four from West Berkshire took part, two of
the eighteen entries having turned back due to the traffic on the A34 getting
up to its usual tricks.
The Pangbourne team comprised Ian Blanch, Woody Chapman, Josh
Orton and Jack Rogers. The format is that the accompanying teacher with a group
sits with a team from another school and marks their work. The lady from
Cranford House who sat with our team was most complimentary about our team’s
general attitude and disposition, and she also praised their high level of
teamwork.
In a highly competitive atmosphere and tight time restriction
for each round, teams tied for first place in several rounds but we were
delighted to be declared sole winners of the ‘Hors d’oeuvre’, one of the
trickiest rounds of the competition, with some of the calculations involved
being ones for which a calculator would normally be used.
The competition was extremely well organised and much
appreciated by all the teams involved.
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