Six year old UK Cypriot primary school student Marina Chimonides has emerged in the top one per cent of best young mathematicians in the UK.
Year six pupil Marina of Hilden Oaks Primary School, in Tunbridge has won a bronze award in The Mathematical Association’s Primary Mathematics Challenge (PMC).
Marinas parents Constandinos and Panayiota are UK born but their parents are from Pyla and Kornos respectively.
After competing alongside 72,000 children nationwide in November 2015,Marina Chimonides successfully answered a variety of challenging multiple choice mathematics problems, and joined the top 1pc highest scorers to take part in the PMC Bonus Round in February 2016.
She was then one of only 503 pupils to win an award in the Bonus Round.
Parikiaki congratulates Marina on this massive national achievement.