My First Cantamaths Experience

Cantamaths

On Wednesday the 24th of August 7 students from Rimu and 1 student from Kauri went to Cantamaths, there was 1 Yr 8 team and 1 Yr 7 team. At 4:00pm the Yr 7 teams had to go down from the stands down into the floor area for the runners to choose a table. Shukoor was our Yr 7 team runner; he chose a table that was in the middle of the area. At the end of the 30 minutes they counted the scores and the Yaldhurst Yr 7 team ended up with 20 points, they did really well for their first time.

At 5:00pm the Yr 8 team went down to the floor area for the runner to pick a table. The Yr 8 runner was me - I was the runner and I chose a table on the far left which I thought was a very good idea because I had a slightly shorter distance to run, (well that's what I thought anyway). I thought it was a good idea because I thought we would end up getting more points and it did work, at the end we had a total of 75 points; we bet our school record by 40 points! That’s 8 questions more than last year. Half way through it, someone stopped running in front of me so I had a stubbed toe for 15 minutes and running with a stubbed toe hurts a lot! There was no way to change runners because once you’re a runner you’re always a runner. Here are some photos from the night. This was our Yr 8 team score, here is a photo of our score. This was what our Yr 8 team score was. Here is a photo of our best Yaldhurst score.

Also here is a photo of a team banner that some friends and I made together as part of the Cantamaths display exhibition.