Pupils at St Mary’s College achieved 2 gold, 12 silver and 11 bronze awards in this year’s UKMT Junior Maths Challenge. Over 235,000 pupils from across the UK sat the Junior Maths Challenge with roughly the top 6% receiving a gold certificate, the next 13% silver and the next 21% bronze.

Gold awards were presented to Isabelle Bond in year 8 and Oliver McDonald in year 7.

The Junior Maths Challenge is run by the UK Mathematics Trust and aimed at those in Years 7 and 8 and is sat in schools.

Further information about the Trust and its activities is available at www.ukmt.org.uk

Some sample questions from this year’s Junior Maths Challenge include:

All Old Mother Hubbard had in her cupboard was a Giant Bear chocolate bar. She gave each of her children one twelfth of the chocolate bar. One third of the bar was left. How many children did she have?

The world’s largest coin, made by the Royal Mint of Canada, was auctioned in

June 2010. The coin has mass 100 kg, whereas a standard British £1 coin has mass 10 g. What sum of money in £1 coins would weigh the same as the record-breaking coin?

The pupils in Year 8 are holding a mock election. A candidate receiving more votes than any other wins. The four candidates receive 83 votes between them. What is the smallest number of votes the winner could receive?

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