This year our school was fortunate enough to have four super smart students – James Walsh, Rian Duncan, Gavin McKeown and Valentina Joseph – take on the Scottish Mathematical challenge. The pupils from S3 and S4 participated in the middle division placing 42nd overall.
The mathematical challenge was set up in 1966-67 by the chairman of the Scottish Mathematical Council at the time- professor E.M Patterson- who wanted maths to be a source of interest and pleasurable achievement.
The pupils were led to battle by maths teacher Mr Barr. He comments “there was a massive improvement from last year, the four pupils performed brilliantly and worked really well together”
Mr Barr also commented on what the day consisted of ” It’s a national competition across all of Scotland which consists of problem solving maths questions, we finished 20 places higher than last year”
