Day 7, 22nd November 2012

 Today's breakfast was prepared by Jenice, Hui Xia, Jasmine and Jia Ying. After which, we entered Griffith University with confidence for the Mathematics Modelling Challenge. The three days of Mathematics Modelling Forum in A.B Paterson College has prepared us well.

We started the day with a briefing by Mr Trevor. He showed us a short cartoon clip relevent to Math Modelling which motivated all the 455 students from 33 schools. We were then split into our own groups, assigned to our mentors for the Mathematics Modelling Challenge.

In our own groups, we were all given real-life problems and scenarios by our mentors and we needed to work out solutions for them. We went for our morning tea after having a rough idea of how we were going to solve our problems.

Many of us had difficulties finding a solution. But as we took it step by step, the answers began to appear. We started off by listing the assumptions before coming out with an idea. After that we had to substantiate our idea by trial and error and collecting data. We then had to modify our idea based on the data. With the guidance from our mentors, we continued working on our project for a few more hours before we came to an end of the first day of the challenge.

We then set off to Robina Shopping Complex to have our dinner as well as some shopping.

As we came back to the apartment, we did our reflections based on the differences of the education systems in Australia and Singapore. We were given a surprise birthday celebration by the teachers after that. All the best to everyone for the Math Modelling Challenge tomorrow!