This year saw a rise in the number of Year 9 and 10 students willing to take part in the Manawatu section of the Mathex competition organised by the NZ Mathematics Association. We had 25 students enrolled to take part in MATHEX22.

The competition was held at the Racecourse Event Centre. There were several local and regional schools in the competition, but we managed to gain first prize in Year 9 and first and second prizes in Year 10.

The students worked very hard during the term sacrificing their lunchtimes to prepare for the competition and we congratulate both teams but especially Year 10’s who also won a second prize as well this year.

I would like to thank the organisers of the Mathex Competition in particular the NZ Mathematics Association and the Manawatu branch of the NZ Mathematics Association.

Once again It was indeed a great pleasure to work with the PNBHS Year 9 and 10 students and then to win in both divisions in 2022.

I would like to personally congratulate all the members of the Year 9 and 10 groups who participated and helped to make this an exciting year for PNBHS Mathematics students.

The following list includes prizes won and certificates awarded. The students in the prize list were also awarded MATHEX22 certificates

Year 10 First Prize

Ryan Fong

Peter Hughes

Nakul Lakhani

Dylan Mark

Year 10 Second Prize

Oliver Lu

Simon Ton

Oliver Song

Blair Verry

Year 9 First Prize

Kexu Chen

Leejun Kim

Angus Taylor

Quinn Shearman

MATHEX CERTIFICATES AWARDED

Year 10

Akshay Aneesh

George Chen

Louis Crawford

Nadith Rathnayake

Year 9

Estijan Basson

Ishman Biswas

Kaushik Doley

Shloke Dutta

Han Park

Roy Park

Yusha’ Rasheed

Alex Sharpe

Master In Charge of MATHEX, Dr G A TULARAM