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Clever Cantamath competitors

The Team Reporter from The Press

Cantamath returned to Christchurch on Wednesday after being postponed two years in a row due to Covid restrictions.

The normally annual mathematics competition involves students in years 6 to 10.

The winners of this year's teams competition were:

- Year 7: 1st Cobham Intermediate, 2nd Heaton Normal School, 3rd Middleton Grange.

- Year 8: four teams reached the golden 100 points 1st Rangi Ruru, 2nd Queenspark Primary School, 3rd Christ the King School, also to reach 100 points Cobham Intermediate.

- Year 9: 1st with 100 golden points St Andrew’s College Team 1, 2nd Burnside High School Team 3, 3rd Christ’s College Team 1.

- Year 10: 1st with 100 golden points Papanui High School Team 1 (pictured), 2nd Christ’s College Team 1, 3rd Burnside High School Team 2.

The overall winners of the Cantamath Displays Competition were Jessica Ritchie (year 8 from Christ the King School) for her dynamic model and Noah Palmer (year 7 from Beckenham Te Kura o Pūroto) for his dynamic model.

Congratulations to the winners and all those involved.

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