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Congratulations to all the finalists. We are now in a process of dropping off and mailing out your certificates and prizes. Thank you for taking part in the International Living Maths Mathletics Olympiad of 2011. We trust that your learners and teachers had a positive experience and believe it or not, we are already planning the Mathletics Olympiad for 2012!  Photos from the prize hand overs in Cape Town and the final list of prize-winners for 2011 will be posted here during the course of the week. The South African leg of the Mathletics Olympiad is now over and the International leg has begun. We will post overall International results in early February 2012.

A brief breakdown of the statistics:

· Number of learners that took part: 95892 (‘07), 117 892 (‘08),142 235 (‘09), 167829 (’10) and 153224 (’11)

· Number of schools that took part: 247 (2007), (2008), 402 (2009), 437 (2010) and 423 (2011)

· Number of prize winners: 455 (2007), 376 (2008), 351 (2009) , 287 (2010) and 220 (2011)

· 45% (2006), 51% (2007), 49% (2008), 45% (2009), 49% (2010) and 58% (2011) of the prize-winners were girls

· Best Learner 2011: Robyn Visser of St Georges Grammar School in the Western Cape

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