{"id":46128,"date":"2021-05-27T11:06:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T09:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2021\/05\/27\/kangaroo-competition-big-leaps-in-math-once-again\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:35:02","slug":"kangaroo-competition-big-leaps-in-math-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2021\/05\/27\/kangaroo-competition-big-leaps-in-math-once-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Kangaroo Competition: &#8220;Big Leaps&#8221; in Math Once Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Participation in the Kangaroo Competition\u2014a multiple-choice math competition with over six million participants in more than 80 countries worldwide\u2014has now become a firmly established part of the school year at Steinm\u00fchle. This year, too, students once again achieved top rankings, reports math teacher Julia Riemenschneider. <\/p>\n<p>A total of 65 students from Steinm\u00fchle took part in the competition. They participated both in person and, due to the pandemic, online from home. One aspect made this year\u2019s participation particularly special: for the first time, there were also participants from third grade at the Steinm\u00fchle Bilingual Elementary School. The oldest participants are in 10th grade.   <\/p>\n<p>The results of the competition demonstrate once again that mathematics is successfully taught and learned at Steinm\u00fchle. 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 \u201cpodium,\u201d taking third place.   <\/p>\n<p>In the \u201cKangaroo Jumps\u201d\u2014that is, the category for the most questions answered correctly in a row\u2014Toshiro Beato del Rosal and Teresa Dinges once again stood out for their performance. A third-grade student, Julian Steinkamp, also performed exceptionally well. <\/p>\n<p>Our heartfelt congratulations to all the participants!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supporting Mathematics Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The Kangaroo Competition is an individual contest in which participants have 75 minutes to solve 24 problems each in grades 3\u20134 and 5\u20136, and 30 problems each in grades 7\u20138, 9\u201310, and 11\u201313.<\/p>\n<p>Our photo shows the participating students. Julian Steinkamp from Class 3 is not in the photo. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22728\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/05\/Foto-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/05\/Foto-1-scaled.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/05\/Foto-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/05\/Foto-1-1030x689.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/05\/Foto-1-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/05\/Foto-1-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/05\/Foto-1-705x472.jpg 705w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/05\/Foto-1-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/05\/Foto-1-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/05\/Foto-1-48x32.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participation in the Kangaroo Competition\u2014a multiple-choice math competition with over six million participants in more than 80 countries worldwide\u2014has now become a firmly established part of the school year at Steinm\u00fchle. This year, too, students once again achieved top rankings, reports math teacher Julia Riemenschneider. 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