{"id":43324,"date":"2016-04-25T18:36:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T16:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2016\/04\/25\/winners-of-the-kangaroo-math-competition\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:31:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:31:04","slug":"winners-of-the-kangaroo-math-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2016\/04\/25\/winners-of-the-kangaroo-math-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of the Kangaroo Math Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the third Thursday in March, nearly 850,000 students in Germany from third grade onward took part in the Kangaroo Math Competition\u2014worldwide, the total was about 6 million. At Steinm\u00fchle, 42 students signed up for this voluntary test\u2014mostly from fifth grade. The Kangaroo problems are usually very stimulating, sometimes entertaining, and can be solved using a wide variety of approaches. Sometimes all it takes is common sense, a bit of ingenuity, or a creative idea. In addition, it is a multiple-choice test, which suits the students very well.   <\/p>\n<p>Everyone who participated has now received a certificate, a booklet containing all the problems and solutions, and a small game. In each grade level, first, second, and third prizes are awarded to the top 5% of participants nationwide; these prizes include science experiment kits, strategy games, math puzzles, and books. <\/p>\n<p>There were four award winners at the Steinm\u00fchle this year, including <i><b>Paula Auschill<\/b><\/i> even won first prize. Second prizes went to <i><b>Johanna Egbring<\/b><\/i> and <i><b>Joshua Wieder<\/b><\/i>, and a third prize went to <i><b>Lotte Jungfer<\/b><\/i>. The award for the longest &#8220;kangaroo jump&#8221; (i.e., the greatest number of consecutive correct answers) went to <i><b>Lenn Stumm<\/b><\/i> received a Kangaroo T-shirt. Congratulations!   <\/p>\n<p>The successful students from Class 5a, from left to right:<\/p>\n<p>Johanna Egbring, Lotte Jungfer, Paula Auschill, Lenn Stumm, Joshua Wieder<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/K\u00e4nguru-Gewinner.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6403\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6403\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/K\u00e4nguru-Gewinner.jpg\" alt=\"Kangaroo Winners\" width=\"5177\" height=\"3455\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the third Thursday in March, nearly 850,000 students in Germany from third grade onward took part in the Kangaroo Math Competition\u2014worldwide, the total was about 6 million. At Steinm\u00fchle, 42 students signed up for this voluntary test\u2014mostly from fifth grade. The Kangaroo problems are usually very stimulating, sometimes entertaining, and can be solved using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48745,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43324\/revisions\/48745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}