Michelle Lyons-Zwarenstein – Head of Mathematics

The International Competitions and Assessments for Schools (ICAS) are independent skills-based assessments with a competition element. Commonly referred to as the UNSW tests, ICAS is unique, being the most comprehensive generally available suite of academic assessments and school tests for Primary and Secondary School students.

Congratulations to the following students:

Year 7:

High Distinction: Samuel Moliver

Distinction: Luca Calderon-Havas, Myles Cohn, Anna Davis, Eden Glass, Jesse Herdan, Matthew Lowy, Isabel Sarraf, Zac Sidley, Amadeus Tjanaria, Remy Waller, Debbie Winter

Credit: Maya Barnett, Jordan Baskin, Olivia Beinart, Lily Berger, Anton Blair, Isabella Filipczyk, Aaron Glass, Rachel Joseph, Jesse Keyser, Ben Rozen, Gabrielle Utian

Merit: Benjamin Cohen, Noah Dawson Kelly, Casey Flior, Nathalie Freed, Lilly Goldberg, Ellie Morris, Jayda Sacks, Jack Smagarinsky, Benjamin Zwarenstein

Year 8:

High Distinction: Zachary Gothelf

Distinction: Kai Biton, Aaron Goldberg, Eleanor Labi, Zac Levenson, Jessica Lowy, Chloe Miller, Jacob Rose, Jonathan Schach

Credit: Shane Doust, Liam Engler, Jordan Fleisher, Lara Fosbery, Ruby Hurwitz, Ethan Moliver, Aiden Poswell, Harry Schulz

Year 9:

Distinction: Matthew Bozic, Ethan De Melo, Jonathan Sebban, Mimi Silberstein, Jacob Wolf

Credit: Sasha Baskin, Mia Gold, Jamie Orleow, Jemma Salamon, Samara Trenaman

Year 10:

Joshua New wrote the competition when he was on the HICES Music festival.

Distinction: Joshua New

AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS COMPETITION

The Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC) was introduced in Australia in 1978 as the first Australia-wide mathematics competition for students. It has since spread internationally, with students in more than 30 countries attempting the same problems.

The AMC is for students of all standards. Students are asked to solve 30 problems in 75 minutes (Years 7–12). The problems are designed to test mathematical thinking and questions are designed so that they can be answered just as quickly without a calculator as with one. The problems get more difficult through the competition, so that at the end they are challenging to the most gifted students. Students of all standards will make progress through the problems, and be challenged along the way.

This year we trialled writing the AMC using the online format.

Congratulations to the following students:

Year 7: (names are in order of percentile rank achieved)

High Distinction: Samuel Moliver, Eden Glass

Distinction: Matthew Lowy, Isabel Sarraf, Jesse Herdan, Jesse Gothelf (Year 6 accelerant), Remy Waller, Samuel Garvin (Year 6 accelerant), Zac Sidley

Credit: Luca Calderon-Havas, Debbie Winter, Anton Blair, Talia Kleviansky, Amadeus Tjanaria, Rachel Joseph, Anna Davis, Ethan Trenaman, Jake Narunsky, Jayda Sacks, Lily Berger, Jesse Keyser, Nathalie Freed, Noah Dawson Kelly, Ben Rozen, Benjamin Zwarenstein

Year 8: (names are in order of percentile rank achieved)

Distinction: Shane Doust, Zachary Gothelf, Eleanor Labi, Zac Levenson

Credit: Ruby Hurwitz, Jacob Rose, Harry Schultz, Aaron Goldberg, Kai Biton, Chloe Miller, Ethan Moliver, Aiden Poswell, Jordan Fleischer, Jonathan Schach, Liam Engler

Year 9: were on Ski Camp

Year 10: (names are in order of percentile rank achieved)

Distinction: Joshua New

Credit: Dylan Herdan, Rachel Jammy, Mia Port, Adena Sheps, Tia Mallinick

Year 11: (names are in order of percentile rank achieved)

Credit: Aaron Ellis-Bloor, Dheanna Eller, Joel Epshteyn, Joshua Amoils

Proficiency: Erin Baskin, Gabriel Bogomolets, Aron Jaffe, Sienna Amoils