Math Contests

Last term, 75 enthusiastic young mathematicians participated in the Pascal, Cayley, and Fermat math contests. These national contests are for students in grades 9 through 11 and are sponsored, in part, by the University of Waterloo. They involve problem-solving questions that are not directly linked to mathematics curricula in Canada and the questions range from easy to very challenging.

This year, approximately 65,000 students from across the country participated and we had some impressive results with many scores above the 90th percentile—remember that students who participate in these contests typically have some very strong abilities in mathematics. Pictured here are Shawnigan’s first-place mathematicians.

– Stephen Cox, Head of Math

Photo by Stephen Lane