Crescent Takes Second Place At College's Maths Challenge

Hosted and organised by the College, the Challenge is an exciting, fun maths competition for primary school aged children.

Crescent took two teams to compete alongside 75 pairs of enthusiastic and very talented mathematicians from 44 local schools. The Year 5 pupils took part in a series of puzzles against the clock. In five eight-minute rounds the children tackled Tangrams, the 24 Game, Shape Arithmetic, Number Detectives and Matchstick Puzzles. Ably supported and marked by a team of Princethorpe’s Sixth Form students, the competition stretched and challenged the children with mathematical activities that required both reasoning skills and mathematical knowledge.

Mr Adkins, who accompanied the team, said, “The children had a great time and really enjoyed putting their maths skills to the test. Well done to them all, there were some very talented mathematicians taking part and our pupils made Crescent School very proud.”