MEDIA RELEASE
6 November 2009
Adelaide Students Win Prizes in Leading International Competition
The Australian Mathematics Trust will hold an awards presentation ceremony for the annual
Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC) and Australian Informatics Competition (AIC) on
Monday, 9 November at the National Wine Centre, Exhibition Hall, Adelaide, at 5.00pm.
Associate Professor Finnur Larusson, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of
Adelaide, will present 46 AMC Prize Certificates together with Prudence Awards to seven of
these students who also achieved the highest number of consecutive correct responses in
their school.
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Two students who attained High Distinctions in the Australian Informatics Competition
(AIC) will also receive their awards at this ceremony.
The AMC is the major mathematics school enrichment event in the South Pacific region
and the first and one of the largest of its kind in the world. Several hundred thousand
students from schools across 42 countries entered this year. This included 17,000
students from 200 primary and secondary schools in South Australia who sat the
competition.
Prizes are awarded to approximately the top 0.3% of students sitting the AMC in each
year group within each Australian state or country.
Whilst the AMC aims to encourage the average primary and secondary student in the
study of mathematics, it also identifies and acknowledges the more exceptional and
talented students.
Professor Peter Taylor, Executive Director of the Australian Mathematics Trust, said, “The
AMC aims to encourage students of all standards in their study of mathematics. It sets out
to demonstrate how mathematics can be used in the world around them via problem
solving using the skills students learn in the classroom. The AMC has also been useful in
identifying talented students such as these and the results are used for inviting students
into more advanced mathematical enrichment programs.”
The University of Canberra and the Canberra Mathematical Association in Australia are
supporting sponsors of the AMC.
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School List:
ABERFOYLE PARK HIGH SCHOOL
ABERFOYLE PARK
CABRA DOMINICAN COLLEGE
CUMBERLAND PARK
MARRYATVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
MARRYATVILLE
PEMBROKE SCHOOL
KENSINGTON PARK
PRINCE ALFRED COLLEGE
KENT TOWN
ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE
ATHELSTONE
ST PETER'S COLLEGE
HACKNEY
WALFORD ANGLICAN SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
UNLEY
WESTMINSTER SENIOR SCHOOL
MARION
BLACKFRIARS PRIORY SCHOOL
PROSPECT
GLENUNGA INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
GLENUNGA
PEMBROKE SCHOOL
KENSINGTON PARK
ST PETERS COLLEGIATE GIRLS SCHOOL
STONYFELL
EAST ADELAIDE SCHOOL
ST PETERS
PARA HILLS WEST PRIMARY SCHOOL
PARA HILLS WEST
SEYMOUR COLLEGE JUNIOR SCHOOL
GLEN OSMOND
UNIVERSITY SENIOR COLLEGE
ADELAIDE
UNLEY HIGH SCHOOL
NETHERBY
BELAIR PRIMARY SCHOOL
BELAIR
IMMANUEL COLLEGE
NOVAR GARDENS
LINDEN PARK SCHOOLS
LINDEN PARK
MANSFIELD PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL
MANSFIELD PARK
ST PETER'S COLLEGE JUNIOR SCHOOL
HACKNEY
STRADBROKE PRIMARY SCHOOL
ROSTREVOR
Photo opportunity:
WHAT:
Special prize
giving ceremony for the 2009 Australian Mathematics
Competition and Australian Informatics Competition
WHEN:
Monday, 9 November 2009, 5pm – 7pm
REFRESHMENTS: 6pm-7pm
WHERE:
National Wine Centre, Exhibition Hall
cnr Hackney & Botanic Roads, Adelaide
Media are cordially invited to attend.
For further information:
Prof Peter Taylor, Executive Director, Australian Mathematics Trust, 6201 2440; 0412 258 699
Suzanne Fraser, Manager, Australian Mathematics Trust; 6201 2954; 0437 670 610
Anna Nakos, State Director for South Australia, AMC, 0408 571 775
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