Aantara Placed Second In The Queensland Maths Teams Challenge
Aantara Khan spent an afternoon in Rockhampton working through five different maths events, most of them alongside students from schools she had never met, and placed second in Year 7. Her Cuemath tutor Neha Bhasin has taught her since she joined.
On 8 May 2026, Aantara spent an afternoon in a hall in Rockhampton working through five different maths events, one of them on a team with four students from other schools. She placed second in Year 7. Her tutor, Neha Bhasin, has taught her since she joined Cuemath, through weekly online math tutoring.
Meet Aantara
- Year: 7
- Country: Australia
- Tutor: Neha Bhasin
- With Cuemath since: February 2026
- QAMT Capricornia Maths Teams Challenge, 8 May 2026: placed second in Year 7
- Format: five events in one afternoon, including a team of five students drawn from five different schools
Three Of The Five Events Are Not Solved Alone
The Maths Teams Challenge is run by the Queensland Association of Mathematics Teachers and its Capricornia branch has been holding it in Rockhampton for more than thirty years. The Year 7 and 8 challenge runs five ways in a single afternoon. There is an individual paper, worked at speed with no calculator. There is a relay, where pairs from the same school rotate through twenty questions and five larger ones inside thirty minutes. There is a teams event, where five students, each from a different school, are put together at random and given thirty minutes for twelve questions. An estimation question is asked while that is running. Then there is a shoot-out, where students are knocked out one at a time until a single student is left standing in each year level.
Aantara Placed Second In Year 7
Her certificate comes from the Capricornia branch and is dated 8 May 2026, the Friday of the Year 7 and 8 challenge. It reads that she placed second at the competition in Year 7. The school name has been removed from the image at her family's request.
Aantara's Maths Teams Challenge certificate
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Confidence Is The Part This Format Actually Tests
Neha's note on what Aantara needed is short and specific: guidance, practice and confidence. Confidence is listed as something she needed rather than something she had. What Neha names as helping is the practice sheets, and what she describes now is a student blooming and excelling. A format with five timed events in one afternoon is where the third item on that list gets tested rather than the first two.
"Aantara joined me at the end of February and we have been together since. She is a smart, intelligent girl who needed guidance, practice and confidence. Cuemath provided what she was lacking, and now I can see her blooming and excelling. Practice sheets helped her."
~ NEHA BHASIN, CUEMATH TUTOR
"Neha Bhasin is an excellent maths tutor. My daughter really enjoys her teaching."
~ MD ARIFUZZAMAN KHAN, AANTARA'S FATHER
Trusting Your Own Working Is What MathFit Looks Like
Twelve questions in thirty minutes leaves no time to check anything twice. Aantara placed second in Year 7 across a paper, a relay, a team round, an estimation question and a shoot-out. That is what being MathFit looks like, backing the method you have just used and moving to the next question.
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