To do the Junior Maths Challenge myself?

[Amaretti]

DS1 is in year 7 and recently obtained a gold certificate in the junior maths challenge. I was pretty impressed, and decided to have a go myself to see how hard it was. Turns out it's not actually that hard

Anyone else up for it? The link is below, you can't spend more than an hour on it and read the mark scheme before you start, as you can lose marks for answering the later questions incorrectly.

www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/b_file.php?id=381

Go on- give it a try?

Well I was chuffed cos my DD got a silver. :)

She wasn't though,she thought she should have done better....rolls eyes

oooh, lovely

thank you for my silver!

You're very welcome, congratulations

Roll up, roll up, anyone else for the challenge?

I dont have to as I won the national maths competition when I was 15 so ner

i got 69, what certificate do i get?

MrsK you are plainly exempt from this!

Erm 69 - that's a silver too. Everyone is very impressive so far.

You won it? Wow! I definitely have some certificates somewhere...

how do you find out what score gets you what medal?

You have to tell us what you got and then I look it up on the website tell you

I think 123 - all correct, except qu. 23, 25 which I didn't answer.

Ooh that's very good. You are our winner so far. You are so good that you would get gold AND be asked to go on to the next stage. But then they'd see you aren't twelve of course

Unless you are twelve?!

Definitely not 12

but I do have a maths degree, so perhaps an unfair advantage?

Nope, no calculators!

Woowoo - how did you get on?

I haven't tried this paper yet but when I was teaching Maths I used to love doing the JMC (and the Intermediate/Senior version) while the students were sitting the paper - the teachers used to compare answers afterwards and heave a sigh of relief if we had the same solutions and hadn't made any mistakes which might have been a touch embarrasing

I've answered them all. How do I check they're right.

OK done it. Got question 22 and 23 wrong. Answered all others and are correct.

Do I get a certificate?

I'm going to get my friend whos a primary school teacher to do this later.

will do later

might see if i can get my almost 12 year old to do it too.

Kidding, I think that puts you on 119 which is excellent. Yes, you get a gold!

Much respect to anyone who can go anywhere near the intermediate or senior paper.

So our leader board goes like this:

Mamachocoholic 123
Youarekidding 119
Amaretti 110
Nickel babe 74
Happyhippo 69
Mrskravitz Honorary mention for past successes

Well done everyone, certificates will be given out in end of term assembly

111

made a couple of silly mistakes. The first silly mistake was doing it with all the kids around

Just came on here to applaud Worra's post.... (without the shit, though).

Now... do I believe that people will give their true marks here? Not on your nelly...

Yes, I did these with the boys when they were prepping and found them quite easy.

But the higher level papers and next rounds soon become impenetrable for my little brain!

Note Im not game to do it now