More success for Burnside High School Students in Mathematics

The events of 2021 saw a number of the regular Mathematical competitions and contests cancelled. However Burnside High School students performed with distinction in a number of national and international events:

• Four students in the top 30 in the New Zealand Junior Mathematics Competition
•  A prize in the Australian Mathematics Competition
• 14 High Distinctions in the Australian Mathematics Competition.
• First place in the CMA Year 11 Calculator Competition

National Junior Mathematics Competition

In 2021 the first round of this competition was sat by more than 9 000 Year 9, 10 and 11 students from more than 100 New Zealand Schools. The top 15% of students were then invited to sit the final round. 18 Burnside High School students sat the final round.  Burnside High School has had a very good record in this competition, and 2021 was no exception.

Top 30 in New Zealand

Year 9: Jessica Rankin 9WTHN

Year 11: Annabelle Brownsword 11WHGM, Johnny Lawrey 11WHGM, Devin Lin 11NDLN

Distinction Awards:  Jake Bates 9WPEC, John Lee 9NMRS, Ryan Li 9SOSC, Ron Livne 9SOSC, Roi Saxon 9WMNS, Zavier Tuhuru 9WTNH, Ysabella Ho 10STNZ, Baxter Lin 10STNZ, Sarah McGowan 10SKNG, Ray Suzuki 10SKNG, Catherine Wan 10NMDA, Miles Xie 10SMCM, Erin Yamada 10STNZ, Adam Shen 11SBSJ

Year 11 Success

Each year the Canterbury Mathematical Association runs a Year 11 Calculator competition. This is an event for teams of four students who answer four rounds of increasingly difficult questions. This year there were sixteen teams entered with two of those from Burnside High School. One of the Burnside finished in first place and the other in 4th place.

The winning team was Annabelle Brownsword 11WHGM , Johnny Lawrey 11WHGM, Dilkee Nanayakkara 11NMR, and Max Wallace 11NMCA.

The 4th place team was Ella Matthews 11WMRI, Minami Nakamura 11WMRI, Sophia Li 11NMCA  and Devin Lin 11NDLN .

This is the fifth year in a row that Burnside High School has won this competition.

Australian Mathematics Competition: This is one of the world's largest Maths competitions, sat in over twenty countries. In 2021 eighty Burnside High School students entered the competition and some impressive results were gained.

Prize:  Devin Lin 11NDLN

High Distinction: Roi Saxon 9WMNS, Ryan Li 9SOSC, Sarah McGowan 10SKNG, Catherine Wan 10NMDA, Yash Naicker 10NMDA , Haasini Mantena 10WLWI,Annabelle Brownsword 11WHGM, Nick ZHeng 12NSYA, Grady Kenix 12SOSS, Oliver Fan 13SRT, Louie Lu 13SRT,Tomson Zhang 13CHL.

Maths Olympiad: Each year the top Mathematics students in the country go through a selection process to pick New Zealand's team for the International Mathematical Olympiad. This year seven Burnside High School students got through to the second round of the selection process of the 2022 Olympiad. They were Carol Khor 12SWRK, Nick Zheng 12NSYA, Devin Lin 11NDLN, Fiona Li 13SRT, Helaman Hatcher 12NLNC, Shanika Yu 13SRT and Grady Kenix 12SOSS. Grady Kenix gained a gold medal, one of only 5 in the country. Fiona Li and Shnika Yu gained bronze medals and Devin Lin and Helaman Hatcher gained Honourable Mentions.