Millfield and Millfield Prep triumphant in UKMT Regional Challenge

10 Apr 2017

Millfield hosted the UKMT (United Kingdom Mathematics Trust) Team Maths Challenge Regional Final last week. Twenty-nine teams battled it out over the course of 4 hours for a chance to get through to the National Final.

Millfield and Millfield Prep ‘Team A’, made up of Yuhka (Year 9), Angel (Year 9), Emily (Year 8) and Caspian (Year 8) won the competition and will now compete in the National Final in London on 19 June.

Each school entered teams made up of two Year 8 and two Year 9 pupils. All teams completed four rounds during the competition; a group round, a shuttle round, a cross number round and a relay. Team B, made up of Polly (Year 9), Maria (Year 9), Rebecca (Year 8) and James (Year 8) finished a very creditable 14th out of 29 teams.

Everyone competed well and went away with a sense of achievement and enjoyment in doing some mathematical problem solving.