I am responsible for the Junior Division (years 7 and 8) of
the The University of Melbourne - BHP Billiton School Mathematics Competition.
The previous competition was held on May 7, 2008.
If you did really well we may actually meet at the awards ceremony
to be held on Saturday October 11, 2008.
Interested in next year's competition?
Test you skills by trying to compute (without the use of a
calculator!) the sum
1-2+3-4+...+97-98+99
Possible
answers are: 0,
1, 49, 50,
51, None of these.
Got the taste for it?
Many more problems with worked out solutions may be found on the
competition web-page.
Hannah receiving her prize from BHP Billiton's Dr Anis Inayat-Hussain
at the 2006 award ceremony;
Iris with Vice Chancellor Professor Glyn Davis at the 2007 ceremony.
