Mon college students advance to regional Math Area Day competitors

Jan. 26—So, simply how a lot curiosity are you paying on that bank card ?

And that sq. footage your contractor is speaking about—you simply want the driveway resurfaced. You were not relying on fractions and division.

Good luck, doubling that recipe when you’re at it: What’s two-thirds, occasions two ?

In case you thought you had been accomplished with math after faculty, assume once more, Monica McCartney says.

McCartney is the mathematics coach for Monongalia County Colleges. It is her job to assist demystify the topic, so kids can develop as much as be comfy adults in a world that is chock-full of numbers—prefer it or not.

“You by no means get away from math, ” she mentioned.

In the meantime, the native district simply got here out of its annual Math Area Day competitors, an annual showcase of the county’s prime numbers-minded college students. The regional contest for college kids throughout north-central West Virginia is March 11 at College Excessive College.

The winners:

Fourth grade 1st place—Xinxi Xu, North Elementary College 2nd place—Henry Turner, Mountainview Elementary College third place—Joseph Samuel, Covenant Christian College Alternates—Wesley Paulk, Ridgedale Elementary ; Lucy Mapunda, Mountainview Elementary Fifth grade 1st place—Riya Zinn, North Elementary College 2nd place—Anand Subramani, North Elementary College third place—Hank Montoro, Suncrest Elementary College Alternates—Arjun Chadha, Suncrest Elementary College ; Colton Bonfilli, Brookhaven Elementary College Sixth grade 1st place—Gloria Hu, Suncrest Center College 2nd place—Future Shi, Suncrest Center College third place—Shreyansh Medatati, Suncrest Center College Alternates—Isabell Tabone, St. Francis Central Catholic College ; Yunay Chaudhary, Suncrest Center College Seventh grade 1st place—Tessa Abildso, South Center College 2nd place—Emily Lui, Suncrest Center College third place—Elliot Sorensen, Suncrest Center College Alternates—Elijah Shinn, Mountaineer Center College ; Cael Livengood, Covenant Christian College Eighth grade 1st place—Ryan Karim, Suncrest Center College 2nd place—Caden Yao, Suncrest Center College third place—Larry Du, Suncrest Center College Alternates—Pavan Subramani, Suncrest Center College ; Logan Mercer, Mountaineer Center College Ninth grade 1st place—Sanketh Guppi, Morgantown Excessive College 2nd place—Maxwell Chen, Morgantown Excessive College third place—Mark Wang, Morgantown Excessive College Alternates—Solas Chhin-Kreiner and Sreyan Das, each of Morgantown Excessive College Tenth-Twelfth grades 1st place—Lauren Shen, Morgantown Excessive College 2nd place—Joyce Hu, Morgantown Excessive College third place—Austin Luo, Morgantown Excessive College 4th place—Grace Yan, Morgantown Excessive College fifth place—Amy Lu, Morgantown Excessive College sixth place—Carter Herron, Morgantown Excessive College seventh place—Daniel Han, Morgantown Excessive College eighth place—Andrew Kisner College Excessive College ninth place—Lucas Marsh, College Excessive College Tenth place—Brandon Ngo, Morgantown Excessive College Alternates—Shawn Li, Morgantown Excessive College ; Claire Lu, Morgantown Excessive College Different awards Fourth-grade awards for Finest Bodily Estimation and Finest “Stresstimator ” went to Kyle Eddins of Eastwood Elementary, Lane Bergeron of Ridgedale Elementary and Xinxi Hu of North Elementary, respectively.

Byron Ellison of Cheat Lake Elementary gained the fifth grade award for Finest Bodily Estimation.

Successful that very same award for his or her grades had been Leo Grammer, sixth grade, Westwood Center ; Ryan Ghorayeb, seventh grade, St. Francis Central ; and Paige Mayle, Westwood Center.

Carter Herron, Amy Lu, Brandon Ngo, Lauren Shen and Grace Yan, all of MHS, took residence the Tenth-Twelfth grade Group Award.

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