The Mathematics Project Competition for Secondary Schools is organised by the Mathematics Education Section, Curriculum Development Institute, Education Bureau. It aims at promoting students’ interest in learning Mathematics and developing students’ generic skills through project learning. The competition comprises two categories: Category A (Junior secondary project) and Category B (S1 mini-project).
Level
Junior Secondary
Award
Champion (Junior secondary project)
Awarded work
Don “丼” inside a quadrilateral
Theme of the Portfolio
Introduction
The project aims at finding the ratio of a part of inner area to outer area of a quadrilateral from a rectangle to different shapes of quadrilaterals.
Awarded work
Level
Junior Secondary
Award
1st runner-up (Junior secondary project)
Awarded work
一切由(1, 2, 3, 6)開始
Theme of the Portfolio
Introduction
Chinese version only
Awarded work
Level
Junior Secondary
Award
2nd runner-up (Junior secondary project) and Best presentation (Junior secondary project)
Awarded work
The World of Possibilities in Dice
Theme of the Portfolio
Introduction
The project aims at finding a fair method to choose 1 out of x books using a y-faced die. The “changing base” method and the “Pile A method” are discussed and compared.
Awarded work
Level
Junior Secondary
Award
Outstanding performance (Junior secondary project)
Awarded work
Napkins Puzzle's Generalisations
Theme of the Portfolio
Introduction
The project studies the effective way to use different kinds of napkins to cover a given-shaped table.
Awarded work
Level
Secondary 1
Award
Outstanding performance (S1 mini-project) and Mathematical Modelling Award (S1 mini-project)
Awarded work
Allocation of Revision Time before Examination by Mathematical Modelling
Theme of the Portfolio
Introduction
In this paper, we develop a model to help us to determine how much revision time we should spent on each subject before examination.
Awarded work