MEDIA RELEASE
2 November 2009
Local Students Win Prizes in Leading International Competition
The Australian Mathematics Trust will hold an awards presentation ceremony for the
annual Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC) on Wednesday, 4 November at the
Holroyd Centre, Merrylands, at 5.30pm.
Councillor Allan Ezzy APM, representing the Mayor of Holroyd, will present Prize
Certificates to the 29 western suburbs prizewinners and Prudence Awards to the
47 students who achieved the highest number of consecutive correct responses in
their school.
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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 80,000
students from 700 primary and secondary schools in New South Wales 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 not-for-profit 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:
BAULKHAM HILLS HIGH SCHOOL
BAULKHAM HILLS
MODEL FARMS HIGH SCHOOL
BAULKHAM HILLS
CRESTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL
BAULKHAM HILLS
THE SWOT SHOP
BAULKHAM HILLS
TYNDALE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
BLACKTOWN
PATRICIAN BROTHERS COLLEGE BLACKTOWN
BLACKTOWN
BONNYRIGG HIGH SCHOOL
BONNYRIGG
BOSSLEY PARK HIGH SCHOOL
BOSSLEY PARK
CANLEY VALE HIGH SCHOOL
CANLEY VALE
CECIL HILLS HIGH SCHOOL
CECIL HILLS
CHESTER HILL HIGH SCHOOL
CHESTER HILL
SEFTON HIGH SCHOOL
CHESTER HILL
DOONSIDE TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL
DOONSIDE
PATRICIAN BROTHERS` COLLEGE
FAIRFIELD
MAR NASAI ASSYRIAN COLLEGE
FAIRFIELD HEIGHTS
FAIRVALE HIGH SCHOOL
FAIRFIELD WEST
WESTFIELDS SPORTS HIGH SCHOOL
FAIRFIELD WEST
HURLSTONE AGRICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOL
GLENFIELD
FREEMAN CATHOLIC COLLEGE
GREEN VALLEY
GREEN VALLEY PUBLIC SCHOOL
GREEN VALLEY
GREYSTANES HIGH SCHOOL
GREYSTANES
GOOD SAMARITAN CATHOLIC COLLEGE
HOXTON PARK
ST DOMINIC'S COLLEGE
KINGSWOOD
PENRITH ANGLICAN COLLEGE
KINGSWOOD
LIVERPOOL GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL
LIVERPOOL
ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC BOYS COLLEGE
LIVERPOOL
MACQUARIE FIELDS HIGH SCHOOL
MACQUARIE FIELDS
CERDON COLLEGE
MERRYLANDS
MOOREBANK HIGH SCHOOL
MOOREBANK
ST MARK'S COPTIC ORTHODOX COLLEGE
MOOREBANK
REDEEMER BAPTIST SCHOOL
NORTH PARRAMATTA
TARA ANGLICAN SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
NORTH PARRAMATTA
PENRITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
ORCHARD HILLS
ARTHUR PHILLIP HIGH SCHOOL
PARRAMATTA
THE KING'S SCHOOL
PARRAMATTA
MACARTHUR GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL
PARRAMATTA
OUR LADY OF MERCY COLLEGE PARRAMATTA
PARRAMATTA
GIRRAWEEN HIGH SCHOOL
PENDLE HILL
PENRITH HIGH SCHOOL
PENRITH
WILLIAM CAREY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
PRESTONS
ST JOHNS PARK HIGH SCHOOL
ST JOHNS PARK
ST MARYS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
ST MARYS
TOONGABBIE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
TOONGABBIE
CATHERINE MCAULEY WESTMEAD
WESTMEAD
PARRAMATTA MARIST HIGH SCHOOL
WESTMEAD
SACRED HEART PRIMARY SCHOOL
WESTMEAD
PRAIRIEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL
WETHERILL PARK
MARY MACKILLOP COLLEGE
WETHERILL PARK BC
Photo opportunity:
WHAT:
Special prize giving ceremony for the 2009 Australian Mathematics Competition
WHEN:
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 5.30pm – 7.30pm. Refreshments 6.30pm- 7.30pm
WHERE:
Holroyd Centre, Miller Street, Merrylands
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
Bill Akhurst, AMC State Director for NSW, 02 9451 2530
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