March
20th,
2025
The Kangaroo Tests are back at Sant Ignasi!
Once again this year, all students from Primary 5 to Lower Secondary 3 at Sant Ignasi plus students from Lower Secondary 4 to Upper Secondary 2 who wished to do so have taken part in the 30th Kangaroo Tests organised by the Catalan Mathematical Society.
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The Kangaroo Test is an annual maths event run as an individual competition sponsored by the international association Le Kangourou sans Frontières, which seeks to encourage maths among young people and children by getting as many as possible involved in a scientific activity.
One of the main goals of these tests is to stimulate and motivate learning maths through problems. The tests consist of problems of increasing difficulty and with multiple-choice answers.
The Kangaroo Awards were set up in Catalonia in 1996 for Catalan-speaking territories following the example of Kangorou, a maths game devised in France in 1991 which was inspired by the model of the Australian national competition (hence its name).
It has now spread to over 30 countries and this year we are celebrating the 30th Kangaroo event!
