On Thursday 13 February 2014, the Year 10 team of Grace Cornell, Gretchen Kwong, Phoebe Fung and Ariel Ng participated in the regional heat of the FMSP Team Mathematics Competition at Longdean School, Hemel Hempstead.

18 teams spent the afternoon tackling challenging mathematical questions in high spirits, adding to the competitive yet exciting atmosphere. The girls performed well and worked incredibly as a team, sharing the workload and using everyone’s strengths in order to arrive at an answer. They enjoyed the Problem Solving round in which they were faced with a number of problems including a Calcudoku, a very tricky type of Sudoku that doesn’t give you any starting numbers, but only basic information about what blocks of numbers should add, subtract, multiply or divide to give.

The girls finished the competition in a commendable 11th place, with Harrow and Bancroft’s School securing a place in the National Final.