Queen Mary College’s Maths Department celebrates excellent effort and results from the UK Senior Maths Challenge 2024. This is an annual, international competition for those who are in year 13 or below. Students sit a 90-minute, multiple choice paper based on a points system, designed to elicit a deeper level of thinking and problem-solving.

Among various competitions and extra-curricular activities, the Maths Challenge is a way in which students taking one of our Maths courses are encouraged to stretch themselves and apply their mathematical skills. The competition serves as a challenging experience, made to develop students’ ability to analyse and find solutions rooted in logic.

Each year the top-performing participants are awarded, with the top 66% being Bronze, Silver and Gold in the ratio 3:2:1. We had a record number of QMC Maths students sitting the 2024 Challenge. Principal Mark Henderson presented the certificates to award winners today.

This year, 83% achieved a certificate: 

• 36 Bronze awards
• 25 Silver awards
• 12 Gold awards

Those who achieved a Gold award  this year include:

Year 12: Ojas Dhall, Lucia Kraner and James Gibson (Top Scoring student in the 1st year cohort)

Year 13: Finlay Baulch, Daniel Malone, Emily McGuinnity, Rhys Perrett, Alessandro Toldo, Ben Treble, Amy Watkins (Top Scoring student in the second year cohort), James Wheatley and Ben Williams.

Gold award winners automatically qualify for the follow-on competition, the Senior Kangaroo Challenge, which takes place in November.

David Smith, Head of Mathematics at QMC, commented, “Congratulations to everyone who took part in this year’s maths challenge. It is really pleasing that so many are keen to test their problem-solving skills in a national competition.”