The British Youth International College (BYITC) has named 13 winners of its seventh annual International Maths Olympiad competition, including a child from New Malden.  

11-year-old Kapishan Kadsan, who attends Green Lane Primary & Nursery School at Worcester Park, was the Level 7 winner. 

 He said: "I never imagined loving maths this much! BYITC showed me that with the right training, I could be great at it."

 Of the thousands of students from all over the world who took part in the week-long free-to-enter challenge, which is aimed at students ranging from ages four to 14, the following were successful and received certificates and trophies: 

• Aanya Muppidi, 9, Leatherhead - level 1 winner
• Anaisha Saxena, 6, Glasgow - level 2 winner
• Saksham Kataria, 7, Birmingham - level 3 winner
• Isaiah Tahir, 10, Glasgow - level 4 winner
• Chinmaye Kanumuri, 8, Hemel Hempstead - level 5 winner
• Aarav Shah, 12, Birmingham - level 6 winner
• Kapishan Kadsan, 11, New Malden, London - level 7 winner 
• Jithya Krithika Kotte, 12, Liverpool - level 8 winner
• Krishna Nair, 9, Glasgow - level 9 winner
• Pranav Aiyer, 10, Reading - joint level 10 winner 
• Tejas Mittal, 10, Edinburgh - joint level 10 winner
• Abel Abby, 10, Edinburgh - joint level 11 winner
• Vivaan Rawat, 10, Glasgow - joint level 11 winner

 Kadsan's mother Pamila said: "The structured Olympiad curriculum at BYITC has helped my child build a strong foundation in math. The step-by-step approach makes learning easy."

The first-of-its-kind challenge is based on BYITC's pioneering Abacus Maths programme, with 50 questions in total and results based on accuracy and timely completion. Students used concepts like finger, Abacus, and Mental theory.

The top performers across each of 11 levels of BYITC's Supermaths training were awarded certificates and trophies for their impressive arithmetic skills.

BYITC's Founder, Dr Rashmi Mantri, said: "Congratulations to each of the winners. Every child who took part deserves enormous credit as we can tell they gave it their best shot and worked very hard. 

"Young people are naturally competitive and derive lots of fun from playing and experimenting with numbers.

"Competitions like this prepare them for higher levels of assessments and exams as they go through their educational journey as they worked on time management and enhance their problem-solving skills.

 "As we know from research, such high-level game playing significantly boosts logical thinking skills, an excellent preparation from a future which is going to be dominated by AI.

 "Since we launched the Challenge, we have had more than 75 winners which is a great achievement.

"The success of our Olympiads and the sheer scale of entries from across the globe are very satisfying and give us confidence that there is a huge hunger out there for learning more about and getting lots of fun from playing with numbers."

 Glasgow-based BYITC is also now the UK's largest provider of Abacus Maths classes and creator of the world's first 100% digital, game-based abacus maths learning application.