An exceptional and brilliant 9-year-old girl, Danielle Boadu, has beaten over 450 colleagues of hers to win the “Sum it Up” national maths competition for the Year 3-4 category in the United Kingdom.
Danielle who is a student of the Heritage Park Primary School in Peterborough, England, was awarded for presenting her unique visual interpretation of how she pictures maths in her school playground, Peterboroughtoday reports.
The competition, launched by leading edtech provider Renaissance Learning, invited local primary school children to get creative to mark World Maths Day.
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Open to all primary school children across the UK and Ireland, the competition encouraged children to think big about how maths can be found in the everyday and create imaginative artwork showing their vision of where they can see and experience maths in the world around them.
Danielle’s winning picture was chosen by a panel of expert judges including Catherine Magee, Teacher of the Year in a Primary School Silver Winner and Kjartan Poskitt, author of the Murderous Maths series.
The judges were really impressed by the inventive and inspiring ideas in Danielle’s winning entry, with judge Catherine pointing out how Danielle used nature to represent maths through her use of techniques such as addition, shapes and parallel lines.
Winner Danielle said: “I had fun with my entry because I enjoyed finding all the shapes and patterns in the playground, and drawing the objects that I counted and observed. When I first looked all the things in the playground looked normal but then I looked closer and thought about all the things we had learnt in maths and I thought ‘wow, I can see all of the patterns.”
Danielle’s teacher, Nina Edenbrow, added: “I’m so pleased for Danielle. She made some fantastic mathematical observations and recorded her findings very carefully. We examined our school environment and it was fascinating for the children to see the maths in nature – the symmetry was a particular surprise for many children as I think they imagined nature to be rather ‘haphazard’ but they could see how an understanding of number and shape could help them to create art.”
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