From the Math Department: Big Leaps and Great Prizes at the Kangaroo Competition

On March 16, the annual Kangaroo Math Competition took place. This is a multiple-choice competition in which students have 75 minutes to correctly answer as many questions as possible across three difficulty levels. Correct answers are worth 3–5 points depending on the difficulty, but points are also deducted for incorrect answers. “So our students have to be very strategic in how they approach the test,” reports Julia Bernzen on behalf of the math department.
Once again, students from Steinmühle Elementary School and High School voluntarily participated in the Kangaroo Competition; this year, even more than last year—a total of 119 students in grades 3 through 9. Everyone receives a prize at the end of this competition, though grand prizes (1st–3rd place) are also awarded, as well as prizes for the “biggest kangaroo jump” (the longest streak of correct answers).The math department is particularly proud of the fantastic results, and once again, many of the main prize winners are from Steinmühle. Here are the names of our math whizzes, along with the prizes they won:

– Nika Jablonski from Class 4 for the longest kangaroo hop in the elementary school
– Johanna Fuchs, 5a, 3rd place
– Charlotte Hanefeld, 5a, 3rd prize
– Sophia Schlösser, 5a, 3rd prize
– Julian Alshut, 5c, 3rd prize
– Leonard Hilger, 5i, 3rd prize
– Johannes Stroth, 5i, 3rd prize
– Jana Nowakowski, 5i, 3rd Prize
– Anna-Lena Grießler, 6th grade, 1st Prize and the school’s longest Kangaroo jump
– Sophie Menzler, 6th grade, 2nd Prize
– Philian Merle, 6th grade, 2nd prize
– Orlando Geisel, 9c, 1st prize

The following people posed for the photographer:

Front row, from left to right: Charlotte Hanefeld, Sophia Schlösser, Johanna Fuchs, Jana Nowakowski, Nika Jablonski.

Middle row, from left to right: Anna-Lena Grießler, Philian Merle, Sophie Menzler, Leonard Hilger, Johannes Stroth, Julian Alshut.

Orlando Geisel was absent from the photo shoot.

(Back row, from left to right) Maximilian Moll, representing the Mathematics Student Council, and Björn Gemmer, representing the school administration, congratulated the students on their achievements.