Top Mathematicians at GEIS !

Otago Problem Solving Challenge is a mathematics problem solving competition aimed at children in years 7 and 8. It is organised by John Curran and John Shanks, retired members of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Otago, with extensive secretarial help from Leanne Kirk, also of that Department.

Children participating in the competition attempt to answer five questions in 30 minutes on each of five problem sheets, which are done about a month apart starting in April. This year at GEIS we had 137 students taking part in this competition.

Students had to think carefully and use many of their mathematical skills to complete each of the sets of questions. Set 5 was the most complicated I am told!

This was a competition for our top mathematicians and I would like to congratulate all the students that took part. This was a challenging competition! We would also like to give a special mention to our students who passed with merit and excellence. 

Annet Woolford - Maths Leader

Merit

Emma Goldstone

Kaleb Sobieszczuk-Strickland

Orlando Yang

An Phung

Peter Huang

Iah Kennedy

Ivy Robinson

Finn McGregor

Lily Chao

Yi Nuo Li

Mia Long

Tom Ross

Ileana Hart-Daley

Stella Raccuglia

Milly Pegler

Michael Zuo

Lucas Gibbons

Tyler Marquet

Roan Marsh

Shrey Gajaria

Blake Werner

Logan Richardson

Amelie Finn

Aidan Wemyss

James Chapman

​​Isaac Cook

Terry Chen

Abi Haughton

Arya Shori

Billy Cox

Leo Ewers

Luke Johnston

Luke Grimmer

Garima Passi

Kieran Rodgers

Zarah Millar

Ben Blake

Kathleen Sun

Excellence

Oliver Heap

Kenny Huang

Aayush Gosh

Joshua O'Sullivan

Daniel Noronha

Kathrine Li

Mila Dailey

Jessica Andrews

Faith Lai

Josie Hua

Noah Schipper

Louis De Biasio

Oscar Dellow