The number was up at Mount Rowan Secondary College when more than 100 primary school pupils visited the school to take part in a maths challenge day.
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Year seven students acted as team managers for the grade four and five pupils from rural primary schools whose students are zoned to attend the school in the coming years.
Teams took part in three separate challenges throughout the day, which were devised to test their maths knowledge and introduce concepts including algebra and sudoku.
Mount Rowan teacher Victoria Aertssen said the maths challenge day had two goals - to highlight the breadth of maths and introduce them to life at secondary school.
"I wanted the school community to be involved, and thought we could get primary schools in and give them a taste of what high school life is like," she said.
There was also a social element for the year seven students who helped run the day as they acted as team managers for the schools they used to attend.
"It gave them a chance to apply their maths knowledge, and to see their old teachers and school friends," Ms Aertssen said.
It was also an opportunity for non-sporty pupils to get a taste of competition against other schools.
"It's a good way to engage students who perhaps don't get to go anywhere for sport and who enjoy maths, and for those who don't enjoy maths as much to get a taste of a wider range of maths activities.
"We want to showcase that maths here at Mount Rowan is important ... and show maths in a different light."
With the lessons learned from their first maths challenge day, Ms Aertssen and her year seven maths class will host a second event next month with more than 100 pupils from "city" primary schools in their catchment zone.
"The day gives them a taste of what high school looks and feels like. They're in the college, hearing the bells, working in classrooms with our students, going out in to the yard with them ... high school isn't scary."
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