{"id":93604,"date":"2015-07-20T10:56:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T08:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=93604"},"modified":"2015-07-20T10:56:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T08:56:45","slug":"south-africa-climbs-mathematics-olympiad-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/93604\/south-africa-climbs-mathematics-olympiad-table\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa climbs Mathematics Olympiad table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African team at the International Mathematics Olympiad has finished 55 out of 104 countries \u2013 an improvement when compared to recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The SA team\u2019s performance has declined since 2011, but this trend has now been reversed. It was also the team\u2019s best performance since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The International Mathematics Olympiad is the world championship mathematics competition for high school students and is held annually.<\/p>\n<p>The first Olympiad was held in 1959 in Romania, with seven countries participating. Nowadays, there are over 100 countries participating from five continents.<\/p>\n<p>The 2015 Olympiad was held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, from 4 to 16 July.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/93378\/nearly-1500-senior-public-schools-in-sa-do-not-offer-maths\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nearly 1,500 senior public schools in SA do not offer maths<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The South African team consisted of Yaseen Mowzer, Nicholas Kroon, David Neal Broodryk, Bronson Rudner, Andrew McGregor, and Sanjiv Ranchod.<\/p>\n<p>Mowzer walked away with a bronze medal, while Rudner and McGregor received honourable mentions.<\/p>\n<p>Team leader Dirk Basson said he was pleased with the team\u2019s performance: \u201cBeing in the 55th position has moved us up by nine positions, which is much better than last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The graph below shows the performance of the South African team over recent\u00a0years.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/South-AFrican-Mathematics-Olympiad-team-ranking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-93606\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/South-AFrican-Mathematics-Olympiad-team-ranking.jpg\" alt=\"South-AFrican-Mathematics-Olympiad-team-ranking\" width=\"613\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/South-AFrican-Mathematics-Olympiad-team-ranking.jpg 613w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/South-AFrican-Mathematics-Olympiad-team-ranking-300x130.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on South Africa education<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/87310\/south-africas-education-system-vs-the-world\/\">South Africa\u2019s education system vs the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/85021\/sa-bottom-of-global-maths-and-science-list\/\"><strong>SA bottom of global maths and science list<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/84257\/disturbing-maths-results-among-sa-matriculants\/\"><strong>Disturbing maths results among SA matriculants<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/75206\/average-sa-grade-9s-score-10-8-for-maths\/\">SA Grade 9s average 10.8% for maths<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African team at the International Mathematics Olympiad has finished 55 out of 104 countries \u2013 an improvement when compared to recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":63441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,10156],"class_list":["post-93604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-international-mathematics-olympiad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93608,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93604\/revisions\/93608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}