![]() ![]() Ms Erickson said the school had challenged Alex through enhancement programs and by organising a mentor from Monash University. The assistant principal at Glen Waverley Secondary College, Sandra Erickson, said the school was "absolutely thrilled" with Alex's success. aren't like that, and that's why people are interested in them," Alex said. "When we do maths at school it's just the same thing over and over again, and that's why we think maths is boring, but the IMO and Olympiads. He said he enjoyed the challenge of the international competition. When we do maths at school it's just the same thing over and over again, and that's why we think maths is boring, but the IMO and Olympiads. "There's 160 hours of gruelling testing, that's not counting any preparation - that's 160 hours of testing to pass to actually get into it, so the rest of the time they are relaxing and reading around the subject," Ms Cooper said. you have no idea how to do them when you first see them," he told 774 ABC Melbourne.Īlex's mother Hannah Cooper said getting accepted to compete in the competition required hours of studying and testing. "The reason why we have four-and-a-half hours for them is that there's no set way to approach these questions. "What Alex has done, six questions, seven out of seven on each, 42 out of 42 is an incredible achievement."Īlex said while the questions were not particularly difficult to understand, they were "really, really hard to solve". "Imagine how complex and difficult these questions are that the best young mathematicians in the world get 90 minutes each and for the most difficult question on each paper - and they're worth seven marks each - the most popular score is a zero, a one or a two," Mr Spencer said. With a week’s worth of effort to get the student body hyped for the game, it’s no wonder the rest of the evening went so well.Australian Mathematics Trust supporter Adam Spencer said Alex's results were a "once-in-a-generation achievement" and a "triumph of great genius but also real application". This year, the $15 ticket to the game was a t-shirt students had to wear to the dance. Students wear what they wore to school to the game. The tradition of Court-warming survived through the last game at Cokely Field House and has continued into the new field house. “All four years I have been here the theme has always been #GlowCrazy and it’s just cool to keep a tradition going,” senior Claire Dunlap said. #GlowCrazy has been the theme for Courtwarming for as long as some students can remember. Whether one chose to go all-out or be more conservative, the school was surely bright. Some students went for more discreet showing of school spirit by pairing their favorite outfit with a pair of crazy neon socks. ![]() Neon leggings with neon running shorts were a staple this year. On Friday, students wore their brightest neon clothes to close out this year’s Court-warming spirit week. However, some ambitious students opted to wear slippers, sleeping masks and even full onesies. To some, the students’ clothes might’ve looked similar to every other school day, with a large majority sporting sweatpants or carrying blankets. Many different pajamas strolled the halls that day, ranging from silk sets to sweatpants. “I think it had a great effect, allowing students to realize they are not so different from each other wanting to wear PJ’s to school.” “The PJ idea was a pretty big ‘yes’ because we figured that everybody, the student body included, would enjoy dressing comfortably for the school day,”sophomore Jacob Marquis said. To start off the week of Court-warming, it was a favorite that’s been around since elementary school: PJ day. ![]() Hundreds of students rolled out of bed Monday morning already dressed for school. Organizations like StuCco and the Leadership class named the days, trying to make them more simple this year to raise participation. Athlete, Class Colors, USA day and Neon colors. Spirit week started off with fun dress-up days like PJ day, Mathlete vs. Court-warming 2017 is here and students are prepared. Zahra Khan, Paige Twenter, Annika Fuller, Delaney Tarpley, and Madeline Hensley ![]()
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