Last Thursday four groups (two year 5 groups and two year 6 groups) participated in the O'Mathlon Competition.

Our four teams competed against 35 other groups from schools around Otago.   We worked in teams of four to answer different maths questions.  Our runner took the questions with their ID, ran a lap around a set course and then showed the questions to the marker.  The marker would check the answers, and then the runner took them back to their groups table.  If the questions hadn't been answered correctly the group had to decide whether to pass on the question, or to move on to the next one.  We aren't sure of the results yet, but they will be sent out to us soon.  I thought my team worked really well together and I had lots of fun.  

Roland van Rooyen

On Thursday 30th August I went to and competed against other schools at the Edgar Centre for the O'Mathlon. When East Taieri arrived we put our bags down in our seats in the stands. The Year sixes went down to the court, the arena basically. The O'Mathlon is where you run, get a maths question, answer it, run to get it marked and so on. The length we had to run wasn't as big as I expected but when you run it, all of a sudden it seems way longer. The questions were challenging but some were easy. We gave up a few but my team did around 11/20 questions. I really enjoyed the experience and would like to go along next year. East Taieri didn't get placed in the top three but at least we had fun and that's all that matters.

Jenny Petegem -Thach