Professor Peter Taylor, Director of AMT, has made a special trip to Hong Kong to attend the MCYA launching ceremony and signed the agreement with Professor Keith Chan, PolyU’s Dean of Students. Professor Keith Chan said the MCYA has been introduced in Australia for years and is well known among teachers and parents, and PolyU is honoured to be the only authorized teaching institution of the MCYA in Hong Kong.
Organized by PolyU, The first series of "Mathematics Challenge for Young Australians"
The MCYA consists of six series which are designed for different levels of gifted students, namely Newton Enrichment Series, Dirichlet Enrichment Series, Euler Enrichment Series, Gauss Enrichment Series, Noether Enrichment Series and Polya Enrichment Series.
Moreover, MYCA has four distinct features:
1. Wider Scope
Topics and contents of the series far beyond mainstream curriculum in Hong Kong, enabling students to reach their own levels of excellence in mathematics
2. More Flexible, better coherence
There is no entry series in the Challenge, students could enrol in different series which suit their levels
3. Suitable levels for students’ mathematics capability
Entry assessment will be arranged for all successful students at the beginning of the series, to group them into suitable levels. At the end of the series, they will be assessed again to decide whether they will be enrolled in the next level
4. Enrich communication skills
Students will have to work with others during the course of the Challenge, becoming partners and support each other
Upon completion of the Enrichment Series, local students will be invited to participate in the “Australian Intermediate Mathematics Olympiad” (AIMO) held by AMT. Students with outstanding performance in AIMO might join gifted programmes offered by PolyU’s departments to experience a more interactive, self-motivated and interesting learning model.
