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Clifton comes third in the country in maths challenge!

A team of 4 pupils from Years 8 and 9 at Clifton competed in London on Monday 21st June 2010 in the final of the prestigious UK Teams Maths Challenge trophy. 1450 schools entered the competition run by the UK Mathematics Trust and 80 schools won a place in the final by winning or coming as runners up in their regional heat.

The day included a group circus involving practical maths problems, a relay race which is a combination of speed across the room and speed at solving maths problems, a mathematical cross-number puzzle in which two members of the team work on the across clues and two on the down clues and a series of head to head races where answers from each question feed into subsequent questions and bonus points are given for beating the opposing team to the final solution.

After 5 hours of maths and all these rounds Clifton came third, which is a fantastic achievement.

Team members were: Gareth Jones, NT Pre; James Fraser, NT Pre; Emily Wright, OH; and Lizzie Powell, WoH.

11 October 2010

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