Kangaroo Competition: “Big Leaps” in Math Once Again
Participation in the Kangaroo Competition—a multiple-choice math competition with over six million participants in more than 80 countries worldwide—has now become a firmly established part of the school year at Steinmühle. This year, too, students once again achieved top rankings, reports math teacher Julia Riemenschneider.
A total of 65 students from Steinmühle took part in the competition. They participated both in person and, due to the pandemic, online from home. One aspect made this year’s participation particularly special: for the first time, there were also participants from third grade at the Steinmühle Bilingual Elementary School. The oldest participants are in 10th grade.
The results of the competition demonstrate once again that mathematics is successfully taught and learned at Steinmühle. Students took second place three times. Toshiro Beato del Rosal (6a), Teresa Dinges (7b), and Orlando Geisel (7c) qualified for the competition. Lars Mitschke (5c), Moritz Wagner (5c), and Rebecca Zenker (8a) also earned a spot on the “podium,” taking third place.
In the “Kangaroo Jumps”—that is, the category for the most questions answered correctly in a row—Toshiro Beato del Rosal and Teresa Dinges once again stood out for their performance. A third-grade student, Julian Steinkamp, also performed exceptionally well.
Our heartfelt congratulations to all the participants!
Supporting Mathematics Education
The Kangaroo Competition is a contest held once a year on the third Thursday in March in all participating countries simultaneously; it is administered as a voluntary written exam in schools under supervision.
The event is designed to support mathematics education in schools, to spark and reinforce an enthusiasm for mathematics, and to encourage both independent study and classroom work by offering interesting problems.
The Kangaroo Competition is an individual contest in which participants have 75 minutes to solve 24 problems each in grades 3–4 and 5–6, and 30 problems each in grades 7–8, 9–10, and 11–13.
Our photo shows the participating students. Julian Steinkamp from Class 3 is not in the photo.
