The Madras Mathematics department will be holding a Pi memorising competition on Monday March the 15th. This event is open to all pupils and will take place in the K.R Hall at lunchtime.

GREAT PRIZES TO BE WON!!!!!

All interested competitors should give their names to a member of the maths department before Friday the 11th.

For those who wish to attempt a record bid:

visit A Million Digits of Pi - be ambitious!

UK Schools Pi Memorising Record

is held by Daniel Ramsay an S2 pupil at Boclair Academy. He has memorised 701 decimal places. The previous record of 628 decimal places was held by Colm MacQueen formerly of Largs Academy and was set in 2003. Congratulation to Daniel on this magnificent achievement. His ambition is 1000 places. Yet again the UK Record is retained by a Scottish pupil!

At Madras College our school record was set by Dave Stewart who managed 160 places way back in 1999.

Also try the current problems on the Nrich Site.
We would suggest that ...

Stage 3 is suitable for S1-S2
Stage 4 is suitable for S3-S4
Stage 5 is suitable for S5-S6
Also remember to try the unsolved Tough Nuts.

Class 2YP have been applying their knowledge of Pythagoras' Theorem to a problem posed by the New Zealand Association of Mathematics Teachers : Mel's Rectangle. Investigate for yourself using our interactive diagram.