Students at SUIS Qingpu continue to pursue the challenge of acquiring higher-order thinking skills in mathematics, strive to engage with innovative thinking in mathematics, and challenge themselves with a pursuit of stronger results in the global gold medal intercollegiate mathematics competition, the AMC.
On September 24, 2022, the winners of the 2022 Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC) held by ASDAN (Hong Kong) were announced, 90 students from our middle school and 92 students from the primary school of our school participated and won awards.
JIN Xu Yao (Grade 6E) and MA Zi Chen (Grade 8D) amazingly won HIGH DISTINCTION awards, nine students were awarded DISTINCTION,34 students were awarded CREDIT and 45 students were awarded PROFICIENCY.
The Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC) started in Australia in 1978 as the first Australia-wide mathematics competition for students. It has become the largest single event on the Australian education calendar and a global competition, allowing students from 32 different countries attempt the same mathematics problems on the same day.
SUIS Qingpu Campus’s Middle School
December 5, 2022
Hello everyone, I am Ma Zichen from Class 8D. I am incredibly happy to win the High Distinction award in this AMC competition. Although I was a little surprised to receive it, it was also somewhat expected, because since I was a child I have had a soft spot for mathematics, especially since participating in my very first Mathematics Olympiad. After I was in Middle School, my father encouraged me to read the book, “The Foundations of Mathematics,” and kept telling me stories about well-known mathematicians such as Mr. Yau Chengtong. I appreciate the beauty of mathematics because of its simplicity. Mathematicians use strict logical systems to build different mathematical systems to describe the world around us and to summarize laws; these systems also have a significant impact on the development of other sciences. I believe that mathematics will also have a profound impact on future scientific and technological breakthroughs. I would like to thank my mathematics teacher for his patience. Finally, I recommend that all my schoolmates listen to Mr. Yau’s speech on the beauty and application of mathematics, hoping that all students can discover the beauty of mathematics and love mathematics as much as I do.
“Math is not boring – the process of thinking is fascinating, and each problem solved gives me a great sense of accomplishment. I am incredibly happy to share about my mathematics learning with my peers,
1.Treat the textbook as your primary source. Be well prepared for class, prepare questions for the teacher and note down the key points to help with your review. Understand each example problem in the textbook and clarify each sample problem taught by the teacher in order to consolidate your foundation, integrate knowledge and apply it flexibly.
2.Focus on training. Learning mathematics deeply is inseparable from the basic calculations. To learn mathematics better I must check my errors and practice basic questions. You must spend more time on learning from your past mistakes so that you can improve.
3.There are often multiple solutions to one question. Some questions will have various kinds of solution routes – I often use one method to do the problem, and another method to check my answer.
From primary school to middle school, I have participated in a variety of mathematics competitions: the Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC), the North American Mathematical League (CML), the American Mathematics Competition (AMC 8), and the Math Kangaroo (MK) competition, achieving satisfactory results in all. Prior to each math competition, I will focus on spending time to find some past questions from previous years, complete the questions in a planned way, pick up my incorrect questions, organize them into a set of incorrect questions, and regularly revise and consolidate them to strengthen my ability.
Finally, I would like to suggest to those students who feel that mathematics is terrible that they adopt a different outlook…that they look for the fun in math by finding methods that suit them.