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Sage Point earns second place in math competition

STAFF REPORT | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 13 years, 2 months AGO
by STAFF REPORT
| March 29, 2012 6:00 AM

MOSES LAKE - Moses Lake students flexed their brains during a math competition last week.

Seventeen fifth-graders from Sage Point Elementary competed in the "Math is Cool" regional competition March 23 at Foothills Middle School in Wenatchee.

Sage Point earned second place in the team event. Austin Hyer was the school's top scoring individual and earned third place in the individual event.

The competition includes individual events requiring students to complete sets of open-ended, multiple choice and mental math problems, and team events requiring students to answer sets of open-ended and multiple choice problems and compete in relays, pressure rounds and college bowl rounds.

A team of four students is headed to the "Math is Cool" state competition Masters on May 19 in Moses Lake.

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