'Have Sum Fun' Maths Quiz
“Have Sum Fun" is an annual mathematics competition in a quiz night format, open to Years 7-12. Teams of six students race against the clock to solve four tough rounds of eight challenging maths questions, in a very intense, but also very fun environment.
It was wonderful this year to have so many students keen to take part in this competition. On Friday 12th March, four teams of mixed Year 10, 11 and 12 students competed at John Curtin College of the Arts supported by Mr Platel. On Friday 19th March, four teams of mixed Years 7 and 8 students competed at John Curtin College of the Arts supported by Mr Pauley, and two teams of mixed Years 9 and 10 students competed at All Saints’ College supported by Miss Coma.
All students enjoyed the evening and it was wonderful that a Year 7-8 team placed 2nd and a Year 11-12 team placed 4th! These are fantastic results, and we congratulate all students for their participation!
Challenge yourselves to the below questions from the quiz – calculators allowed (check answers below)!:
Years 7-8:
A pencil case contains 42 pens that are blue, red, green or black. There are three more red than green, one more blue than black and two more black than red. How many green pens are there?
Let A, B and C be positive integers. If A < B < C; A + B + C = 16; ABC = 140; and A2 + B2 + C2 = 90; what is the value of C?
Years 9-10:
What number comes next in this pattern? 1, 0, 1, 4, 4, 3, 9, 8, 5, 16, 12, _____
In the diagram below, the lengths of the sides of the triangle are 8, 9 and 13 centimetres. The centres of the circles are at the vertices of the triangle, and the circles just touch.
What is the radius of the largest circle in centimetres?
Participants
The students who participated are listed below:
Year 10, 11 and 12
Joe Bose
Brendan Boudville
Victoria Ann Chong
Zack Cohen
Sophia Connolly
Steven Darbyshire
Thomas Erkes
Emmanuel Foo
Georgina Hartono
Audrey Ho
Antoni La Rosa
Leah Nigli
Gianni Petta
Mai Anh Pham
Daniel Ristic
Marius Rodari
Juan Selvan
Avinesh Singh
Sanjeev Singh
Toby Soliman
Kathryn Tan
Adelbert Tjoeng
Year 9 and 10
Leon Du Toit
Declan Kartadinata
Josh Laboudeuse
Christopher Ng
Joshua O'Brien
Hannah Oversby
Isaac Pavy
Edvin Prince
Nathan Rodrigues
Angelyne Varen
Ruth Vincent
Mia Watanabe
Year 7 and 8
Emily Boudville
Fletcher Brown
Raidan Chipchase
Oliver Colgan
Chris Dass
Oscar Du Toit
Isla Emmerson
Harry Gao
Isaac Golding
Aldrich Kartadinata
Ben Kelsey
Varad Kurkute
Dorothy Lai
Naomi Lee
Liza Monkina
Lani Newman
Jacob Pascoe
Ruben Reji
Dylan Romeo
Aadarsh Sah
Maureen Sherry
Olivia Vahala
Leo Webb
Zamia Williams
Answers to above challenge questions are: all 7!