Problem children are welcome at Sutherland secondary this Tuesday.
The school is preparing to hold three math contests in which students will have 60 minutes to work through 25 problems covering addition, number lines, and word problems.
The contests are generally written by the University of Waterloo and include a Pascal contest for Grade 9 students, a Cayley test for Grade 10 students and a Fermat contest for Grade 11 students.
While the Grade 9 and 11 students will write their contests before school, the Grade 10 kids have their math-up during class time. The entire Math 10 honours class will be writing the contest, according to organizer Hwie Lie Johns.
The students are encouraged to challenge themselves, according to Johns, who’s been organizing math contests at the school for the last 12 years and also leads the math club.
Students from Sutherland’s feeder elementary schools will also be invited to try their problem-solving skills in math contests pencilled in for this May, according to Johns.
