Wednesday, February 19, 2003
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Wednesday, February 19, 2003 |
Students bound for state math competitionFayette's students demonstrated their proficiency in math during the annual MathCounts competition of the Clayton, Henry and Fayette County Chapter. The Flat Rock Middle team placed second in the Feb. 8 competition and will advance to participate in the state level contest next month. Team members are Ashley Ellis, Tyler Wright, Young Kim and Jonathon Gausden. These students will also compete in the individual portion of the contest. Although only first and second place teams go to the state competition, Fayette Middle and Rising Starr Middle schools performed well, placing third and fifth, respectively. Additionally, four Fayette students earned slots at the state level for their individual performances. Fayette Middle's Zach Williamson, the competition's first-place finisher, along with fellow classmates Jake Wellman and Russell McCord and Rising Starr's Kyle Lungsford will advance as individual competitors having placed within the top 10. The state competition will be held March 22-23 at Scitrek Science and Technology Museum in Atlanta. The top four individuals and top team coach at the state level will receive an all-expense paid trip to the national MathCounts competition scheduled for May 9 in Chicago. MathCounts is a national math coaching and competition program that promotes middle school mathematics achievement through grassroots involvement in every U.S. territory. The competition seeks to promote student interest in mathematics by making math achievement as challenging, exciting and prestigious as a school sport. Interested students at each school are selected to participate in the local competition by taking tests to determine the top performers. The MathCounts competitions are rigorous and usually last for about three hours. Both local and state competitions consist of a sprint round where students have 40 minutes to solve 30 problems without the use of a calculator, the target round which consists of eight, multi-step problems with only 30 minutes to solve and the team round where students work together to solve 10 problems in 20 minutes. The national competition also encompasses a countdown round which is a fast-paced, oral competition where top scoring individuals compete against each other and the clock to solve problems and the masters round where top scoring students prepare an oral presentation on a specific topic and present it to a panel of judges.
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