Maths Feast 

The maths feast is a mathematics competition of four rounds. Year 10 were split into teams of four, and travelled to Walton Academy, where they were shown into a hall and seated accordingly, one table per team, one teacher per team. There were many other schools there, all competing against each other with fourteen teams in total. The rounds varied massively; Some involved tracing ribbons around cubes while others required diagnosing calculator problems and others were simply logic problems which required skill and teamwork to solve. All 4 rounds were based on one thing: problem-solving. The atmosphere was often tense but eased into sociability in-between the rounds: for some schools there was rivalry while others simply chatted amongst themselves.

In my opinion, our biggest competitor was time. Our team only completely finished one of the 4 rounds, with most teams finishing none of them at all. At the end of each round, the top 5 scorers would be read aloud in reverse order. After 3 rounds, we stopped for lunch where we were served some of the best biscuits we’ve ever eaten and a bottle of water to stay hydrated.

Overall, I found the experience well worth my time: the problems were interesting and challenging, some being simple addition, while others were extraordinarily challenging. One of our teams managed to place 2nd overall, missing gold by only two points, which they found very frustrating. 

Ada 10W

Pictured below - left to right:

Zuzia, Rubie, Sriya, Charlie, Charlotte, Grace, Evelyn, Ada.

14 March 2025 – Pi Day! 3.1415926535

Students at KSHS experienced a number of Pi day activities in their maths lessons on and around Pi Day.

Year 7 completed a Pi related wordsearch and had a go at writing a Piem, a story or poem with each word the length of the digits in Pi. Here was one of our favourites by Maisy Dring in 7NP:

Pie, I love you

I munch carefully

It dances, jumps and sings

Some Year 8 students looked at the best value pizza calculating the area and cost per square inch, whereas other students drew Pi Day skylines (examples from Krishita and Freya).

Year 9 were set the challenge of learning the most digits of Pi – 31 was a record in one class.

We currently have our Pi Day competition, ending on Monday 24 March, where students have been set the following challenges:

• to bake or cook something Pi related such Pi shaped cookies, or a delicious pie!
• To craft something Pi related, such as a paper chain or bracelet with colours relating to the digit
• To write a pi-ku poem where the first line has 3 syllables, the second line 1 syllable, and the last line 4 syllables

We would love to see all your entries, with prizes for the most creative.

The Mathematics Department