{"id":84417,"date":"2026-06-30T12:56:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2026\/06\/30\/the-joy-of-math-bilingual-elementary-school-made-great-kangaroo-leaps\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T12:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:56:36","slug":"the-joy-of-math-bilingual-elementary-school-made-great-kangaroo-leaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2026\/06\/30\/the-joy-of-math-bilingual-elementary-school-made-great-kangaroo-leaps\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Math: Bilingual Elementary School Made Great Kangaroo Leaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"default-style\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"default-style\">Shortly before the start of summer vacation, the Steinm\u00fchle Bilingual Elementary School honored the winners of the Kangaroo Competition. In this math competition, elementary school students\u2014mostly in grades 3 and 4\u2014take part at their own schools and tackle exciting, logical, and often humorous math problems. It is a multiple-choice competition that emphasizes logical thinking and creative problem-solving with numbers.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"default-style\">\n<p class=\"default-style\"><span class=\"T286Pc\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style=\"font-family: Google Sans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);\">This requires brain teasers, spatial reasoning, and clever estimates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"default-style\"><span class=\"T286Pc\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style=\"font-family: Google Sans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);\"><span class=\"Yjhzub\">The goal is to make<\/span> math <span class=\"Yjhzub\">fun<\/span>. The competition aims to show that math is more than just arithmetic and can be enjoyable even outside of traditional classroom settings. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"default-style\"><span class=\"T286Pc\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style=\"font-family: Google Sans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);\">Ymo Wang won first place in Class 3.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"default-style\"><span class=\"T286Pc\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style=\"font-family: Google Sans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);\">Florian Wild took first place in Class 4. Third-place prizes in Class 4 went to Emanuel Hoppe, Letitia Pusch, Marta Veldman, and Yucheng Wang. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"default-style\"><em><span class=\"T286Pc\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style=\"font-family: Google Sans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);\">(Heinm)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-84409 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/06\/IMG_1112-scaled-e1782816896115.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1030\" height=\"773\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly before the start of summer vacation, the Steinm\u00fchle Bilingual Elementary School honored the winners of the Kangaroo Competition. In this math competition, elementary school students\u2014mostly in grades 3 and 4\u2014take part at their own schools and tackle exciting, logical, and often humorous math problems. It is a multiple-choice competition that emphasizes logical thinking and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":84418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,90,85,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bilingual-elementary-school","category-contests-awards","category-news","category-stem"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84417","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}