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Kangaroo Math Following its 10th Anniversary, the Jenga, Paper Airplane Toss, Ball Maze Battle, Card Matching Game, Stacking Cup Battle

Competition 2022 award ceremony of the 2022 Malaysian and 2D Rubric Match.
Kangaroo Math Competition was
Award Ceremony: held on the 12th of November at The second session of the award ceremony continued after the two-hour break.

Kuen Cheng High School. The award There were miniature piano and guitar performances along with Teacher Talks where
"More than Just ceremony was split into 2 sessions, the qualified lecturers and professors gave their take on the education of maths.
first being for the Pre-ecolier, Ecolier
a Competition, it's and Benjamin categories, while the One of the incredible speakers of the Teachers Talk, Mr. Noor Fahmi Zaharuddin,

a Movement" second session was for the Cadet, shared his tips on “Making Math Classrooms Filled with Wonders”. He kicked off by
Junior and Student categories.
expressing his sadness due to the declining number of students furthering their studies in
STEM subjects. His biggest goal was to cultivate students to enjoy the process of learning

The ceremony started at 10:00 a.m. with the entrance of the VIP guests of the day maths and make his class more livingly. He mentioned the Domino Effect which states
along with an opening speech by the emcee. A general report regarding the competition that when a change is made it will eventually activate a chain reaction. Therefore, he
was given regarding the amount of participants over the years and activities held by the encouraged the teachers to start the movement by putting in effort because they will
organisation over the course of the pandemic. The director of Kangaroo Math Malaysia, surely see some beautiful changes at last.

Mr. Suhaimi Ramly, then gave his thanks to all the organising committee members and
participants of the competition. Moving on was the award ceremony for the Cadet, Junior and Student categories,
with several awards being given to students from Kuen Cheng High School too.
Following up was a speech given by the President of National STEM Association

Malaysia, Dato' Prof. Dr. Noraini Binti Idris, whereby she emphasised the importance of Last but not least, Mr. Jonathan A/L Ramachandran, a Freelance Math Olympiad
maths in a logical standpoint of education. Before giving out the awards, a short video Coach had a fruitful sharing session with the students. He introduced the four main
was played as the organisation's kangaroo mascot entertained the audience. branches of mathematics that students need to master at the secondary level. While
being asked about the reasons why students hate mathematics as a subject, he believes

It was then time for the award ceremony for the Pre-ecolier and Ecolier category. that it was due to the strict teachers and the complexity of maths questions where it
Awards were given to the Grand Prix (high score) and gold medallists of their respective takes multiple steps to the right answer. Having said that, he thinks that
categories. it is the teacher’s utmost responsibility to make the class more
interesting.

Kangaroo awards for Benjamin category were given before break time. Then,
parents and students enjoyed their lunch, which was sold at the food trucks. At the same The award ceremony drew to an end earlier than
time, there were 7 Game Booths set up in the canteen, including Colour Cup Mania, expected at 3:30 p.m. It was an honour that we had an
interview with one of the Grand Prix winners from our

school. She is Chan Rou Jing from Sr2ComA. “Maths can
Jointly reported by: be really fascinating sometimes, especially when you

Khoo Xin Yi Sr1ScA realise that one thing can be related to another, and you’d
Grace Low Shing Wei Sr2ScA never imagined the two could have anything to do with
one another,” she said. According to her, she was surprised
to find out she won the Grand Prix as she never thought
she would have won it. Talking about the challenges she
faced in the competition, she said it was more about

speed and how to stay calm during the competition.
Lastly, she advised juniors to always be steady in
Chan Rou Jing from Sr2ComA facing challenges.
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