We are pleased to announce that the 2015/2016 Primary Maths Challenge has been completed and the awards for the Bonus Round have been made.
72 000 pupils in 1800 schools entered in November, with 1554 pupils who scored 21 or more being invited to take part in the Bonus Round in February 2016.
In the Bonus Round 2 pupils scored full marks, 10 scored 24/25 and 21 scored 23/25. These 33 pupils will be receiving Gold medals. 118 pupils will receive Silver medals and 352 will receive Bronze medals. Congratulations to all the pupils who were invited to take part in the Bonus Round and especially to the medal winners.
If your school has a medal winner, why not contact your local press and ask them to include an article on him or her. If you contact the MA office we'll help by supplying a press release pro-forma for you.
You might be interested to read about Joe Benton, a Gold medal PMC winner who went on to represent the UK in the International Mathematics Olympiad. An interview with Joe is published in the Spring 2016 volume of Primary Mathematics.
The next round of PMC will take place in November 2016. Put a date in your diary to remind you to order your packs in September. Orders placed before October 10th qualify for the Early Bird discount.
The next round of PMC will take place in the week beginning November 14th 2016.
1428 Bonus Round OMR sheets were received in time to be entered into the February results. The distribution is shown here:
Mark | 0-5 | 6-10 | 11-15 | 16-20 | 21-25 |
% of pupils | 0 | 6 | 34 | 49 | 11 |
Gold | 33 pupils scoring 23-25 |
Silver | 118 pupils scoring 21-22 |
Bronze | 352 pupils scoring 18-20 |