Kangourou: who will win this year?
Great expectation for the results of the national tournament mathematical “Kangourou”.
By Riccardo Amietta.
During the present school year in Italian schools was held a mathematical competitions "Kangourou”. Millions of students from private and state and schools in Italy took part in this exciting challenge. Millions of brains have struggled to win and are waiting for the results to determine who among the many "athletes" will go to the next stage of the tournament.
"I'm very excited, said a terza media student from Sacro Cuore Institute” -"The questions were really difficult; I'm afraid I have made a lot of mistakes."
"We entered a classroom, and we were handed a form to fill up . Then they gave us the booklets with questions. They were divided into different levels, which were further divided into more questions worth three, four and five points. We had seventy-five minutes ."In seventy-five minutes boys and girls entering the competition have therefore tried to solve as many questions as possible about geometry, algebra and arithmetic, observing absolute silence, pencils and pens on the paper, concentrated, dividing, multiplying and subtracting.
Since the end of the test a lot of us are still thinking and reading again the book of quizzes, that the teachers gave us after the competition. Another boy interviewed told us that some students from his class had found solutions to some questions that they had failed during the exam session.
"Now we are waiting for the results"-said the previous student -"Then we'll see. "
I just want to wish everyone good luck and hope that we all overcome the first stage of our tournament”.