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Mathletes Finals 2015

Last Saturday, 700 MATHletes from across the country competed at 5 provincial finals around Ireland for spot in the All-Ireland Championship. 

With online and written tests and a special Lego team Challenge from LearnIT...it shaped up to be one epic day of maths.

160 students were selected for the All-Ireland final on May 2nd, hosted by Dublin City University. 

Our top students in the Mathletes are:
Beverly Genockey - 3rd year
Carmel Byrne - 2nd year
Danielle Farrelly - 3rd year
Niamh McKenna
 - 3rd year

Maths Week Ireland

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Khan Academy Competition for 1st, 2nd and 3rd years. All students have been signed up for the Khan Academy and have been taking the maths challenges during their IT classes. Every class in the Junior Cycle is taking part in this online maths competition and the class with the highest points at the end of the week will be declared the winner. The winning classes will have no homework that weekend. There will also be an individual prize for the students in each year with the highest points for the week.
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Have you got Maths Eyes?

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Maths Quiz

Prize for the best mathematical picture. Entries submitted by email to dhurley@eurekaschool.ie The competition will be judged by the school's photographer Mr Murphy.

Code Week Ireland

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MATHletes Challenge 2014

The online and in-person competition used the Khan Academy website and gave thousands of students across Ireland the chance to compete with each other, and improve their maths abilities. It included a Student Challenge and a Schools Challenge, and was open to students in 5th and 6th class, and Junior Cycle students. Over €20,000 in prizes were awarded.

Over three thousand students from Ireland competed in the competition and of those three thousand, thirty came from Eureka. The hard work by those students helped Eureka to finish in 5th position at National level and 3rd in Leinster. At the start of May, 13 Eureka students qualified for the Leinster finals held in DCU. Unfortunately, three students were cup-tied and had to attend a soccer final. All the remaining ten students qualified for the National Final which was held in the CHQ building in Dublin on the 24th of May. 

The students who competed were: Carmel Byrne, Ayo Ali, Eva O'Byrne, Antonia Smyth, Jane Murphy (1st year) and Caoimhe Boyce, Danielle Farrelly, Beverly Genocky, Niamh McKenna (2nd year) and Kate Murphy (3rd year)

Everyone was delighted when Beverly Genocky finished in 3rd position in the second year category and then Danielle Farrelly finished in first place in this category. Both girls had worked really hard during the competition and were fully deserving of their prizes.

Applied Maths Comenius Trip to Genoa

Students: Elizabeth Corbally, Clodagh Martin (5th yr) and Ciara Farrelly, Catherine Brady, Rachel Carolan & Chloe Carney (TY). 
Teachers: Mr Hurley & Ms Cronin.

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Junior Cycle Constructions

Construction 1: Bisector of a given angle

Construction 2: Perpendicular Bisector of a line

Construction 3: Line perpendicular to a given line l, passing through a given point not on l.

Construction 4: Line perpendicular to a given line l, passing through a given point on l.

Construction 5: Line parallel to given line, through given point.

Construction 6: Division of a segment into 2 / 3 equal segments without measuring.

Construction 8: Line segment of given length on given ray.

Construction 9: Angle of a given number of degrees with a given ray as one arm.

Construction 10: Triangle, given lengths of 3 sides.

Leaving Certificate Constructions

16: Circumcentre and circumcircle of a given triangle.

17 : Incentre and Incircle of a triangle.

18: Angle of 60, without using a protractor or set square.

19 : Tangent to a given circle at a given point on it

20 : Parallelogram, given length of sides and measure of angles.

21 : Centroid of a Triangle

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