Math Busters
On April 9, forty seven students in grades 4-8 from the Flin Flon School Division participated in the Mathematica contest. The Mathematica contest is written across Canada and involves Math curriculum across the provinces at and above grade level. The contest is open to all students in grades 4-9, but was not mandatory. Students wanting to write the test started preparing in February by writing practice tests.
Students scoring higher than the Canadian average received a Certificate of Distinction: Grade 4 Kaden Wallaker; Grade 5 Skanthan Vijaranjan, Justin Lies, Brayden Abbott, Eli Plamondon; Grade 6 Grady Bedford, Joon Kang, Tara Whitbread; Grade 8 Tyler Highfield, John Yarowy.
The highest scoring students (school champions) in each grade received a medal: Gr. 4 Kaden Wallaker, Gr. 5 Skanthan Vijaranthan, Gr. 6 Grady Bedford, Gr. 7 Vishwaka Epa, Gr. 8 Tyler Highfield.
Grady Bedford was the only Flin Flon student to make the Honour Roll, third place in Manitoba, with a score of 46 out of 50 (92%). He ranked 145 out of 19 104 students in Canada at the grade six level. LEAP (Learning Enriched Activities Program) teacher, Ms. Senyk, facilitated time each week leading up to the test for students in the program to prepare, which she feels helped Grady to beat his last year’s score of 32 out of 40 (80%) to make the Honour Roll, something he was one mark short of last year.
Students in grades 6 who wrote the Pythagoras test did so well that École McIsaac School ranked 174th out of 974 schools to make the School Honour Roll.
All participants should be very proud of themselves as the tests are very difficult, and are meant to challenge and promote excellence.
Students scoring higher than the Canadian average received a Certificate of Distinction: Grade 4 Kaden Wallaker; Grade 5 Skanthan Vijaranjan, Justin Lies, Brayden Abbott, Eli Plamondon; Grade 6 Grady Bedford, Joon Kang, Tara Whitbread; Grade 8 Tyler Highfield, John Yarowy.
The highest scoring students (school champions) in each grade received a medal: Gr. 4 Kaden Wallaker, Gr. 5 Skanthan Vijaranthan, Gr. 6 Grady Bedford, Gr. 7 Vishwaka Epa, Gr. 8 Tyler Highfield.
Grady Bedford was the only Flin Flon student to make the Honour Roll, third place in Manitoba, with a score of 46 out of 50 (92%). He ranked 145 out of 19 104 students in Canada at the grade six level. LEAP (Learning Enriched Activities Program) teacher, Ms. Senyk, facilitated time each week leading up to the test for students in the program to prepare, which she feels helped Grady to beat his last year’s score of 32 out of 40 (80%) to make the Honour Roll, something he was one mark short of last year.
Students in grades 6 who wrote the Pythagoras test did so well that École McIsaac School ranked 174th out of 974 schools to make the School Honour Roll.
All participants should be very proud of themselves as the tests are very difficult, and are meant to challenge and promote excellence.