Twelve yr-old Farrell Eldrian Wu, a high school freshman from the MGC New Life Christian Academy in Taguig City, made a perfect score in the 2012 Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC).
This was announced on September 9 by the University of Canberra-based Australian Mathematics Trust (AMT), which has been conducting the annual AMC since 1976.
Wu, a mainstay of the Philippine math team, was one of only two students worldwide who scored 100 percent in this year’s AMC, said the AMT in an e-mail to its local partner, the non-government Mathematics Trainers’ Guild-Philippines (MTG). The other perfect scorer, Bernard Teo Zhi Yi, is from Singapore.
Last year, Wu was one of 60 Filipino students who were among the “Top 2 Percent” of over 300,000 students in 40 countries worldwide who took part in the correspondence-type contest.
Other Filipino students who scored “99-plus” in the 2012 edition of the AMC were Andrew Brandon Ong from Chiang Kai Shek College; John Thomas Chuatak and Matthew Eric Tan, both from St. Stephen’s High School; Justin Yturzaeta from Jubillee Christian Academy; Bryce Ainsley Sanchez, Deany Hendrick Cheng and Shaquille Wyan Que, all from Grace Christian College; Eion Chua from MGC New Life Christian Academy; Dion Stephan Ong from Ateneo de Manila University; Patrick Niño Policarpio from Greenpark Montessori Learning Center.