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Wet, Wet, Wet
— 29 July 2019
CEOI day 2 was the trial exam for today. The problems were interesting and more difficult than those in the previous trial exams. After the trial exam we, had our customary frisbee session. This time, we had a person in the middle of the cycle / circle trying to fail the others and replace them.
Phones down, thumbs up
— 28 July 2019
Today was the rest day between the two CEOI days, our rest being a different 5-hour exam… After the exam, we decided to play a bipartite graph version of frisbee, before switching to the even easier cycle graph version, a phenomena Kevin likened to solving subtasks.
Let the games begin
— 27 July 2019
And by guessing the great number of 1011337101 I gained the highest score in the sacred blog game, and hence the privilege of writing the blog post for Day 1…
“Can I write it?”
— 26 July 2019
This blog post accounts for the highlights of the IOI team’s first day of training at the pre-departure camp , as told by IOI team member Tunan Shi. Tunan is representing Australia for the first time, at this year’s IOI he is known as the “clutchmaster” of the team, having won a silver medal in
IMO 2019: counting down…
— 11 July 2019
Welcome! Here is a summary of the recent trip to Bath for the 2019 IMO, counting down to The Mathematics Ashes on Day -2, the opening ceremony on Day 0, the first exam on Day 1… and heading home again on Day 7. DAY 9 (Wed 24/7)Home at last. (Or a few more hours in
Olympiad team’s success highlights bright future for women in maths
— 14 May 2019
24 April 2019 This month, four talented Aussie girls represented Australia in the 2019 European Girls Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO) in Kyiv, Ukraine. Our team competed against 196 young women from 49 countries and achieved an outstanding result, winning two silver medals and two honorable mentions for Australia. The team smashed expectations with Australia placing 14th
Maths for me: Running the Challenge
— 29 April 2019
By Anna Nakos, AMC State Director, SA It is just wonderful at the start of a year to hear a student say, “Will we do the Challenge?” When they first encounter the Maths Challenge at my school (year 7) their reaction is quite different. At first they think, “Six questions, easy!” until they realise these are no
Australia comes equal 14th at EGMO 2019!
— 17 April 2019
Coincidentally colour-coordinated in Ukrainian colours, Thanom and Michelle were up bright and early for coordination. By (late) breakfast all of day 2’s scripts had been signed off and by luck of the day’s coordination schedule, every member of team Aus was sitting in the top 10 🙂 With lots of time to kill in the
