Recently, the “2025 Math Kangaroo” organized by ASDAN China (ASDAN) arrived at our school.
Our students achieved record high results, winning 139 awards in one go! Among them, 1 Math Kangaroo Achievement Award, 10 National Super Gold Awards, 17 National Gold Awards, 33 National Silver Awards, 35 National Bronze Awards, 43 National Math Skills Awards, 11 students advanced to Kangaroo Math Asia Camp, 16 students advanced to Kangaroo Math Turkey Camp and 16 students advanced to Kangaroo Math Poland Camp!
Interest is the best teacher
Interest is like a magic key that unlocks the door to knowledge. In the daily math classroom, in order to enhance students' initiative and teamwork ability in competitions, our school skillfully uses interest-driven and collaborative empowerment strategies in the classroom. To this end, our school carefully plans and incorporates colorful small activities, innovative enrichment content, and group work sessions that emphasize collaboration.
Math is Wonderful Puzzles
In the learning of mathematics in elementary school, fun activities make mathematics no longer cold formulas and theorems, but transformed into lively games and wonderful puzzles. Group cooperation builds a bridge of communication and mutual assistance, students express their own views in the group, brainstorming, and overcome the problems together. In the collision of ideas, they not only deepen the understanding of knowledge, but also appreciate the powerful force of teamwork, learned to help each other, hand in hand.
When the students solidified the knowledge base, the teacher will guide them to challenge the more difficult competition questions. Through a large number of targeted exercises, students can become more proficient in applying the methods and techniques they have learned, and realize the leap from theory to practice.
Interest-Driven Competition
Explores Vitality
In order to enhance students' initiative and teamwork in competitions, secondary school teachers skillfully use interest-driven and collaborative empowerment strategies in their classrooms. In the interest-driven approach, life-like math problems are introduced.
Collaborative empowerment adopts the “three-stage collaboration” model, from independent exploration to expose the blind spots in thinking, to mutual diagnosis in small groups to mark the “logical jumping points”, to whole-class consultation to integrate common problems, and through the “Wrong Solution Scene Drama “The students will learn to listen to each other in the process. In this process, students learn to listen to multiple ideas and integrate different perspectives to overcome problems. Through the two-pronged approach of problem modularization and thinking penetration, the classroom builds a solid competition knowledge system for students.
In terms of modularization, based on the real kangaroo competition questions of the past years, the knowledge points are subdivided into geometric shapes, logical reasoning and other modules. Take “Geometric Expanding Diagram” as an example, comparing the real problems in recent years to guide students to summarize the “folding three-step method”, so that when students face new problems, they can quickly call the strategy to realize the transfer of the problem type.
Thinking penetration focuses on the analysis of mistakes, using the “three-step error correction method”, taking the “cube expansion diagram” as an example of the error of confusing the laws of neighboring surfaces, and helping students to form a rigorous chain of reasoning by labeling the “logical breakpoints”. This series of training allows students to form a rigorous chain of reasoning in the competition. This series of training enables students to quickly dismantle the conditions and break through the difficult points when they face complicated questions in the competition, thus building a solid foundation for achieving good results in the competition.
Motivation for winning:
hard work and support
In the eyes of the award-winning students, this honor is the crystallization of love, hard work and wisdom, and they will continue to explore the infinite mysteries of mathematics with this love in the future.
Walking with Love and
Achieving Excellence
G2 Tan won the Math Kangaroo Achievement Award and the National Super Gold Award in the competition and advanced to the Kangaroo Math Asia Camp. On the eve of the competition, Tan was not alone in facing the difficult problems in his practice. His parents are the most solid support, and whenever he encounters a difficult problem, he always turns to them for help first. When he encounters more difficulties during competitions, Tan will also recall what his mom and dad have explained, and also think about whether this kind of topic has appeared in class and how he solved it at that time to help him solve the topic at hand. “Teachers and mom and dad taught the calculation method, elimination method and deduction method in this competition played a great help to me, will be the topic will be based on the topic of the bar reasoning before choosing the answer, encountered uncertainty in the topic are used to exclude the method.”
Grateful Walking Together
for a New Journey
G7 Yin won the National Gold Medal and advanced to Kangaroo Math Asia Camp. She said that the competition was like a beautiful painting, and what she learned in class was definitely the colors that painted the picture. Yin has particularly fond memories of ECA in the Math Youth Class. In the ECA class, Mr. Philip was like a wise guide who opened the door to the wonders of mathematical problem solving for Yin. Of course, this honor could not have been achieved without the help of his classmates. In and out of class, everyone communicates enthusiastically, and the sparks of thinking blossom in the collision. We guided each other and gave sincere advice, so that Yin could clearly see her own shortcomings and correct them in time. Looking forward to the next competition, students can all work together to go to the next level, and continue to progress in the math journey!
The Math Kangaroo is a large-scale global math event for young people in grades 1-12, initiated in 1980 by renowned Australian mathematician Peter O'Halloran, and named “Kangaroo Maths” in homage to Peter O'Halloran, the two leading French math educators who set up the official organizing committee in 1991 to promote the event in Europe. In 1991, two prominent French mathematics educators formed an official organizing committee to promote the event in Europe, and in tribute to Peter O'Halloran, named it “Math Kangaroo ”.
Unlike the traditional Olympiad, which emphasizes the high level of difficulty and challenge, Kangaroo Math Challenge aims to stimulate children's interest and confidence in math learning by using interesting and vivid topics close to life, cultivate students' mathematical thinking, and train students' reading, comprehension, analytical and problem-solving skills, which are suitable for students of all levels in all grades and at all levels of math. As a result, the Kangaroo Math Challenge has gradually become popular around the world, and has become an influential international math challenge for young people around the globe, with 87 countries and regions hosting it and more than 6.3 million students participating in it every year.